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Definition of Beatitudes
1. beatitude [n] - See also: beatitude
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beatitudes
Literary usage of Beatitudes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sources of the Synoptic Gospels by Carl Safford Patton, ( (1915)
"TWO beatitudes (Mt v, 4-5) Many manuscripts invert the order of these beatitudes.
Vs. 4a is a quotation from Ps xxxvii, 11. Vs. 5 sounds like a reminiscence ..."
2. ... Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons by Adolphus Frederick Schauffler (1899)
"(l) The beatitudes are the sevenfold rainbow around the throne of God. (2) They
are the Beautiful Gate of the Temple of Holiness. ..."
3. Studies in Religion and Theology: The Church: in Idea and in History by Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1910)
"f This is the last of the beatitudes; in what follows the person is changed, ...
As the beatitudes began they end, with the promise of the kingdom. ..."
4. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to St. Luke by Alfred Plummer (1896)
"Four beatitudes ; which correspond to the first, second, fourth, and eighth in Mt.
v. ... These beatitudes would not be true, if addressed to them. ..."
5. Christian Institutions: Essays on Ecclesiastical Subjects by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1881)
"But its beatitudes, intention was singularly fine. It was that, on the three
great festivals, instead of the Ten Commandments of Mount Sinai should be read ..."
6. Can We Believe in Immortality? by James Henry Snowden (1918)
"XXXIII THE beatitudes OF DEATH JESUS pronounced his beatitudes upon life, but John,
... We cannot see the beatitudes of death in their full light, ..."
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