A PURE HEART AND CLEAN HANDS SKIN
A PURE HEART AND CLEAN HANDS FULL

The thought of present spiritual sight of God, though, perhaps, hardly to be excluded (contrast Weiss, 'Matthausev.'), is at least swallowed up in the thought of the full and final revelation. Not in his courts ( Psalm 24.) on Mount Moriah, but above and in one complete vision fully grasped ( ὄψονται). The seat of the affections ( Matthew 6:21 Matthew 22:37) and the understanding ( Matthew 13:15), also the central spring of all human words and actions ( Matthew 15:19) cf. 27:59) specially refers to freedom from pollution, judged by God's standard of what pollution is, whether it be a matter of ceremonial enactment (meats, Romans 14:20 cf. Καθαρός (besides speaking of mere physical cleanness, ch. He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart (LXX. 21, 27), finding the basis of his phraseology in Psalm 24:3, 4, 'Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord?. Our Lord naturally passes in thought from the sixth to the seventh commandment (cf. Though we see as yet 'through a glass,' as in a mirror that reflects imperfectly, yet in that glass we behold 'the glory of the Lord' ( 1Corinthians 13:12 2Corinthians 3:18). Shall see God.-Does the promise find its fulfilment only in the beatific vision of the saints in glory, seeing God as He is ( 1John 3:2), knowing even as also we are known ( 1Corinthians 13:12)? Doubtless there, and there only, will be the full fruition which now we wait for but 'purity of heart,' so far as it exists, brings with it the power of seeing more than others see in all through which God reveals Himself-the beauty of nature, the inward light, the moral order of the world, the written word, the life and teaching of Christ. No single form of evil spreads its taint more deeply than that which 'lets in contagion to the inward parts.' Not without cause, however, has the evil of the latter sin so overshadowed the others that it has almost monopolised the name. The purity so described is not that which was the ideal of the Pharisee, outward and ceremonial, nor, again, was it limited, as the common language of Christians too often limits it, to the absence of one special form of sensual sin but it excluded every element of baseness-the impurity of hate or greed of gain, no less than that of lust.

A PURE HEART AND CLEAN HANDS SKIN

Job 19:26,27 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: …ġ Corinthians 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly but then face to face: now I know in part but then shall I know even as also I am known.Įllicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) Pure in heart.-Here, as with the poor in spirit, the noun determines the region in which the purity is to be found-the 'heart' as representing desires and affections, as the 'spirit' represents the will and higher personality. Genesis 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. Psalm 15:2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee… Matthew 23:25-28 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess…ġ Chronicles 29:17-19 I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness.

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A pure heart and clean hands