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  The Sermon on the Mount: Meekness

  Blessed Are the Meek (Gentle, Bowed Down), for They Shall Inherit the Earth. Matt. 5:5

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  The Apostolic Fathers: Clement of Rome

  The Apostolic fathers plays a crucial role as a binding agent between the Apostles and the Christians that came after them. They preserved the message of the Apostles, but they also wrote their own texts, that are important testimonies of their reverence and devotion. One of the most defining texts from this period is Clement of Romes letter to the Church in Corinth.

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  Clement of Rome | Early Church Fathers

  Clement of Rome is the third of the so-called Apostolic Fathers, together with Ignatius of Antioch and Polycarp of Smyrna. Clement was the bishop of Rome late in the first century, and has left an important text, one of the few remaining Christian texts from the first century outside of the Bible.

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  The Authors of Sanctification: Reuben Archer Torrey

  Reuben Archer Torrey was active as a preacher, theologian, and author in the period before the First World War. The era was characterized by great optimism about the future, and also by major Christian revivals. Among Christians, there was at the same time a growing trend toward liberalization, and a central dogma that was being challenged was the authority of the Bible as the Word of God. Torrey became known as a defender of the authority of the Bible, and wrote extensively on this subject. Why was this in particular so important to him?

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  The Exact Opposite of Elbowing Your Way Through 

  On a hillside in Galilee, Jesus delivered the Sermon on the Mount, which would become one of the most powerful messages in history. Early in his sermon, he says, “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” (Matt. 5:5) What does it really mean to be meek? And why is it the meek who will one day inherit the earth? 

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