Duncan Posted March 4, 2016 Posted March 4, 2016 First off I love when my neighbours to the South say "poor" they say it as "Pore" but I move on. In Matt 5 and 3 Nephi 12 it says that Blessed are the poor in spirit with 3 Nephi adding "who come unto me" but in Luke 6 it just says blessed are the poor and omits the "in spirit" part. Do you think Jesus is meaning to say that being temporally poor is a good thing or was it just a textual mistake or what?
volgadon Posted March 5, 2016 Posted March 5, 2016 The qualifier "in spirit" was meant to change the focus from concrete poverty. 1
Robert F. Smith Posted March 5, 2016 Posted March 5, 2016 (edited) 9 hours ago, Duncan said: First off I love when my neighbours to the South say "poor" they say it as "Pore" but I move on. In Matt 5 and 3 Nephi 12 it says that Blessed are the poor in spirit with 3 Nephi adding "who come unto me" but in Luke 6 it just says blessed are the poor and omits the "in spirit" part. Do you think Jesus is meaning to say that being temporally poor is a good thing or was it just a textual mistake or what? The Poor is a technical term common to early Christianity and the Essenes -- who also called themselves "the poor." Scholars generally imagine that this term applied especially well to the Ebionites "the Poor." (Rom 15:26, Gal 2:10; 1QS 1:11, 5:16, 1QpHab 12:3,6,10). Most NT readers miss such special terms because they are unfamiliar with the Qumran scrolls and with early Christian history. Edited March 5, 2016 by Robert F. Smith 2
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