The plain man looks at the Beatitudes / William Barclay.

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O the bliss of the poor! O the bliss of the sorrowful! O the bliss of the hungry and thirsty! O the bliss of the persecuted! | These as Dr. Barclay says are 'startling contradictions of the world's standards, sayings which no man could hear for the first time without a shock of amazement.' But the Beatitudes are something more than mere surprising paradoxes: to work out their implications is to discover 'the technique of being a Christian.' In this book they are examined against the background of the Bible, both Old and New Testament, and of its languages. Dr. Barclay's insight and learning find fresh and fuller meaning in familiar words, and help to point very plainly the 'way of the Beatitudes' and its practice. -Publisher