tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940285234080733028.post5403626636573159627..comments2014-08-02T11:50:08.382+01:00Comments on God's Word in God's World at Highbury: Matthew's Manual of Discipleship - the beatitudesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940285234080733028.post-57608030999373973942010-11-12T13:13:56.637+00:002010-11-12T13:13:56.637+00:00a comment from Jenny ...
I explained that when I ...a comment from Jenny ...<br /><br />I explained that when I first read the 'Blesseds' not knowing the background, I thought they were a strange selection. On reading your article it occurred to me that the collection might make more (ie some coherent) sense by using the opposite attributes. I looked in the RSV and very roughly chose opposites to the 'meek, poor, ...'. The selection I came up with suggested the Romans to me, but of course that presupposes that Jesus was just thinking about one group of people, when in fact it may have been regarding a number of different things that were going on just then. Or .. was he copying this from someone else's speech and adapting it for the day?<br /><br />Also, although it was at the back of my mind, I forgot to mention another Churchill/Jesus similarity that I had been ruminating on, and that was that Churchill had a belief that he was going to be a great leader of this kind since well before the war; Jesus at the latest knew that he was going to be special from the time of John the Baptist, and possibly earlier: From the time of the nativity Mary would have had this belief; how long would she have simply 'treasured these things in her heart' and not let on to Jesus that she thought he had a special destiny?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com