The Literal Interpretation of the Sermon On the Mount
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By locking into the perfect law of liberty and continuing therein, by manfully enduring temptation, the people of God are to be perfected, and so to win the crown of life. The faith of Christ must show itself not in wrangling and pretentious word-splitting, but in exemplary and meek conduct (iii. 13; i. 26, 27). The Christian is to be the perfect man (i. 4 ; iii. 2). That doctrine is eschewed in the epistle is there- fore intelligible. Not so easily is it understood why specially Christian moti...ves are not urged. There are indeed explicit Christian allusions (i. 1 ; ii. 1 ; ii. 7 ; v. 7, 8). The faith spoken of in chap. ii. is Christian faith (ii. 1, and notwithstanding ii. 19). And the law which James has in view throughout is the law as exemplified in the life of Christ and which His friends delight to keep, " the law of liberty," " the perfect law" (i. 25).* The word also by which God has begotten the Jewish Christians (i. 18), the word of truth, the engrafted word, can be nothing else than the Gospel of Christ.f While too there is no teaching about Christ, there is throughout the clearest echo of Christ's teaching.* Everywhere the language of the epistle recalls the language of our * Cf.
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