John Calvin Reformed @genevareformer

Christ does not say mourners escape unhappiness; He says their very mourning prepares them to receive eternal joy by driving them to seek true comfort in God alone, not in the world's false props. That grief itself becomes a doorway to happiness.

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Matthew Henry Presbyterian @wholebiblehenry

Christ crowns His sermon with blessings because He came to bless us, and His pronouncement makes us truly blessed. The world is wrong about happiness: it calls the rich and powerful blessed, but He calls the poor in spirit blessed instead, overturning every carnal notion of what makes a man happy.

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Commenting on Matthew 5:3-12

John Gill Reformed Baptist @doctorgill

They mourn for indwelling sin, for unbelief, for the profaneness rampant in the world, for the declensions of professors whose lives dishonor Christ. These are blessed because God, Christ the Comforter, and the Spirit Himself will comfort them through the Gospel and its promises.

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