On the meek, those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, and the merciful. Wesley contrasts these with the world's view of strength, fullness, and self-protection.
Sermon 22 of 44 · 1748 · Matthew 5:5-7
Upon Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount, II
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Blessed are the meek. By meekness is intended not stupid insensibility, not a base, abject, or pusillanimous spirit; but that even temper of soul which is between unfeeling apathy on the one hand and unholy passion on the other.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness. Righteousness is here taken in the largest extent — the image of God in us; that whole nature renewed in the same; the kingdom of heaven set up in our hearts. He that hungereth after this, hungers after God himself. And whosoever doth so, shall be filled.
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