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The Beatitude of Comfort Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Matthew 5:4 Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh. Luke 6:21b Because we know what the word, blessed, means, we can move directly to category of people Matthew refers to as mourning. This is the present active…

Part II: The Beatitudes This section of the Sermon on the Mount is called the Beatitudes. The word ‘beatitude’ comes from the Latin “beat”, which means blessing. This isn’t pronounced beat, as in beatnik; the ‘a’ should have a short ‘u’ sound. Interestingly enough, the term, “beatnik” was coined by an…