The Sermon on the Mount: A Commentary on the Sermon on the Mount, including the Sermon on the Plain (Matthew 5:3-7:27 and Luke 6:20-49) (Hermeneia)

738 Pages·1995·25 MB·English

by  Hans Dieter Betz

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Hermeneia
-A Critical
and Historical
Commentary
on the Bible
Old Testament Editorial Board
Frank Moore Cross, Harvard University, chairman
Klaus Baltzer, University of Munich
Paul D. Hanson, Harvard University
S. Dean McBride, Jr., Union Theological Seminary in Virginia
Peter Machinist, Harvard University
Susan Niditch, Amherst College
Christopher R. Seitz, Yale University
Roland E. Murphy, 0. Carm., emeritus
New Testament Editorial Board
Helmut Koester, Harvard University, chairman
Harold W. Attridge, University of Notre Dame
Adela Yarbro Collins, University of Chicago
Eldon Jay Epp, Case Western Reserve University
James M. Robinson, Claremont Graduate School
The Sermon on the Mount
A Commentary on the Sermon on the Mount,
including the Sermon on the Plain
(Matthew 5:3-7:27 and Luke 6:20-49)
by Hans Dieter Betz
Edited by
Adela Yarbro Collins
Fortress
Press Minneapolis
The Sermon on the Mount
Including the Sermon on the Plain
(Matthew 5:3-7:27 and Luke 6:20-49)
Copyright ® 1995 Augsburg Fortress
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Scripture quotations from the Revised Standard
Version, New Revised Standard Version, Revised
English Bible, or as indicated. The translations of the
Sermon on the Mount and the Sermon on the Plain are
by the author.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Betz, Hans Dieter.
The Sermon on the mount : a commentary on the
Sermon on the mount. including the Sermon on the
plain (Matthew 5:3-7:27 and Luke 6:20-49) I by
Hans Dieter Betz ; edited by Adela Y. Collins.
p. em. - (Hermeneia-a critical and
historical commentary on the Bible)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8006-6031-5 (alk. paper)
1. Sermon on the mount-CritiCism,
interpretation, etc.
I. Collins, Adela Yarbro. II. Title. III. Series.
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"Mit diesen worten beschleusst er nu seine "With these words he [Jesus] now concludes the teaching
lere jnn diesen dreien Capiteln gethan
he has been presenting in these three chapters, and
und fasset sie aile jnn ein klein blindlein,
darinne mans gar finden moge und ein wraps it up as in a little bundle, where it can all be found.
jglicher jnn bosem stecken und wol Thus everyone can tuck it in the bosom and remember it
behalten konne,
well.
Als solt er sagen: Wolt jr wissen, was ich
gepredigt habe und was Moses und aile
Propheten euch leren, so wil ichs euch As if he were saying: Would you like to know what I have
wol kurtz sag en und so fassen, das jr
preached and what Moses and all the prophets teach you?
nicht durffet klagen, es sey zu lang odder
zu schweer zubehalten. I will tell you in brief and put it in such words that you do
Denn es ist eine solche predigt, die man not have to complain about its being too long or too
kan lang und weit ausstreichen und auch
difficult to keep in mind.
kurtz machen und aile lere und predigt
hieraus fliessen und sich ausbreiten und
widderumb hie zusamen komen. For it is a sermon that can be extended to great length,
Wie kund es nu klirtzer und klerer gefasset
and that can also be summed up in brief. All teaching
werden denn jnn diesen worten? on das
die welt und unser alter Adam nicht lesst and preaching flows out from here, gets distributed from
dazu komen, das wir jm nach dencken here, and comes together again here.
und gegen einander halten unser Ieben zu
der lere, lassens zu einem ohr eingehen,
zum andern widder a us. How could anyone formulate it more briefly and clearly
Solten wirs aber allzeit gegen unser Ieben than in these words? The world, however, and our old
und werck halten, so wurden wir nicht so
Adam do not allow that we give it serious thought and
roh hin gehen und jnn wind schlahen
sondern jmer gnug zu thun kriegen Und measure our life by this teaching. Instead, we let it go in
wol selbs unser meister werden und one ear and out again the other.
leren was wir thun solten, das wir nicht
durfften nach heiligen Ieben und wercken
lauffen, auch nicht viel Juristen und Thus, if we always measured our life and actions by this
rechtbucher dazu durfften, Denn es ist ja standard, we would not carry on in such a brutish way
kurtz gefasset und bald gelernet, wenn
and throw his teaching into the wind, but we would have
nur der vleis und ernst da were darnach
zu thun und Ieben." more than enough to do, and become ourselves masters,
Martin Luther, in effect teaching ourselves what we ought to do. Then
Wochenpredigten (1530/32),
we would not need to chase after holy life and holy
Weimarer Ausgabe, vol. 32,
p.494 works, nor would we need so many lawyers and law
books. Thus, this teaching is concisely formulated and
can soon be learned, if only there is the diligence and
sincerity to do and live accordingly."
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