What is meek in the Bible? Meekness is essentiallyan attitude or quality of heart whereby a person is willing to accept and submit without resistance to the will and desire of someone else.24. In the case of Christians, this is God. What does Meaching mean? To skulk; to cower. What i...
Even in the Psalm from which these words are taken the promise to the meek is not held forth as an arbitrary reward, but as having a kind of natural fulfilment. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth -- This pro...
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721 [117]; and that is for that we should know our own feebleness and our mischiefs that we are fallen in by sin, to meeken us and make us to dread God and cry for help and grace. Revelations of Divine Love 1901 Relat...
Biblical humility is grounded in the nature of God. The Father descends to help the poor and afflicted; the incarnate Son embodied humility from His birth to the Crucifixion, even in His Resurrection. The coupled usage of "meek" and "humble in heart" inMatthew 11:29emphasizes Christ's humi...
his friend had been dead for three days. He speaks to the sisters who both affirm they believed Jesus could heal Him, and their faith that He was the Messiah had not been shaken. When He saw the tears of Mary, and the sisters offered to take Him to the body, the Bible records this...
Not the burly successful but rather the rejected meek were to inherit the earth. Somehow the Naked Ape and the Wimpy Wolf began to find comfort in the other's company: the Naked Apes sheltered and nourished the Wimpy Wolves much more than their burly wolf brethren ever had, and the Wimpy...
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Jesus didn’t say, “Judge not lest ye be judged,” in order to make us meek and mild people who celebrate everything and everything. Jesus said it so that we would be slow to judge and so that our judgment would be tempered by mercy. ...
Aesop used “Sheep’s clothing” as an allegory that appearances can be deceptive. Nonetheless a person’s true nature will eventually show itself. One cannot keep guises up for very long, and the meek Sheep reminds us of that lesson. ...
And, of course, there is the reflection of what philosophers have called the "slave philosophy" of Christianity. That is, the notion that the Christian religion, in preaching humility, forgiveness, and that "the meek shall inherit the Earth," would be capable of overcoming the greatest empire...