The Lord’s Sermon on the Mount (Ancient Christian Writers)

by Augustine of Hippo; John J. Jepson

Publisher:

Paulist Press

, 1948

Overview

This work was written between the years 393 to 396, when Augustine served as a priest at Hippo. In the first book he answers the question of the true meaning of The Sermon on the Mount: Is it humanely possible to put The Sermon into practice? The second book deals with the sixth and seventh chapters of this Gospel, and offers a condensed theology of prayer.

Key Features

• Contains St. Augustine’s thoughts and ideas on the sermon on the mount
• Features extensive indices and notes on the text

Contents

Top Highlights

“If a person will devoutly and calmly consider the sermon which our Lord Jesus Christ spoke on the mount, as we read it in the Gospel according to Matthew, I think he will find in it, as measured by the highest norms of morality, the perfect pattern of the Christian life.” (Page 11)

“For this reason the poor in spirit are rightly understood here as the humble and those who fear God, that is, those who do not have an inflated spirit.” (Page 13)

“St. Augustine does not regard the ethical content of this sermon as a moral code for a select few but as a perfect rule or pattern of Christian life.” (Page 5)

“The beginning of all sin is pride.⁷ Let, therefore, the haughty seek and love the kingdom of the earth; but Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (Pages 13–14)

“Therefore a person puts his candle under a bushel when he dims and hides in temporal concerns the light of good teaching” (Page 26)

Product Details

• Title: St. Augustine: The Lord’s Sermon on the Mount
• Authors: Augustine of Hippo, John J. Jepson
• Series: Ancient Christian Writers
• Volume: 5
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Print Publication Date: 1948
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Pages: 227
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Sermon on the Mount
• ISBNs: 0809102463, 9780809102464
• Resource ID: LLS:STGSTNLRSRMNMNT
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-10T21:14:06Z

About Augustine of Hippo

Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) is often simply referred to as St. Augustine or Augustine Bishop of Hippo (the ancient name of the modern city of Annaba in Algeria). He is the preeminent Doctor of the Church according to Roman Catholicism, and is considered by Evangelical Protestants to be in the tradition of the Apostle Paul as the theological fountainhead of the Reformation teaching on salvation and grace.