Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
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Gill's Exposition
But woe unto you that are rich,.... Not in worldly riches and substance, for some of these have been, and are happy persons in a spiritual sense; and at most, it can only mean such, who trust in their…
See this passage fully illustrated in the sermon on the mount, in Matt. 5–7. Luk 6:21 That hunger now - Matthew has it, “that hunger and thirst after righteousness.” Matthew has expressed more fully…
Adam Clarke
Did - unto the prophets - See Kg1 18:4; Kg1 19:20; Ch2 24:21; Ch2 36:16; Neh 9:26.
Here begins a practical discourse of Christ, which is continued to the end of the chapter, most of which is found in the sermon upon the mount, Mt. 5 and 7. Some think that this was preached at some…
Cambridge Bible
Rejoice ye in that day See Act 5:41. "We glory in tribulation;" Rom 5:3; Jas 1:2-3; Col 1:24; Heb 11:26. They accepted with joy that -ignominy of Christ" which made the very name of -Christian" a term…
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