{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"9213ae3504451e3ef35c50316359a45f4f4f31980b7a52b86a7784219a20c38f","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-catena-654","native_reference":{"book_number":470,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":7,"verse_to":7},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p>Ver 7. \"Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.\"</p><p>Gloss.: Justice and mercy are so united, that the one ought to be mingled with the other; justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice, profusion - hence He goes on to the one from the other.</p><p>Remig.: The merciful is he who has a sad heart; he counts others' misery his own, and is sad at their grief as at his own.</p><p>Jerome: Mercy here is not said only of alms, but is in every sin of a brother, if we bear one another's burdens.</p><p>Aug.: He pronounces those blessed who succour the wretched, because they are rewarded in being themselves delivered from all misery; as it follows, \"for they shall obtain mercy.\"</p><p>Hilary: So greatly is God pleased with our feelings of benevolence towards all men, that He will bestow His own mercy only on the merciful.</p><p>Chrys.: The reward here seems at first to be only an equal return; but indeed it is much more; for human mercy and divine mercy are not to be put on an equality.</p><p>Gloss. ap. Anselm: Justly is mercy dealt out to the merciful, that they should receive more than they had deserved; and as he who has more than enough receives more than he who has only enough, so the glory of mercy is greater than of the things hitherto mentioned.</p>","source_html_sha256":"7c52d3ab4d81f61f6761b75d28fe64858abe31ff149092feeb159dd0846477d2","source_module":"CATENA","source_row_id":654,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/catena/","text_sha256":"f4541b5f6bc56175870fbd5a226237b15c33f1a3e7db1ac3294ee59f11e723ec","translator":null,"work":null}