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Sermon on the Mount

Speech parts

1. Sermon on the Mount - Noun

2. Sermon on the Mount - Proper noun

Meaning

the first major discourse delivered by Jesus (Matthew 5-7 and Luke 6:20-49)

Source: WordNet

Examples

I should like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world. Joseph Goebbels

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. Harry S. Truman

We stand at the present time with the Communists, who are also opposing war.... The Sermon on the Mount is our Christian manifesto. Dorothy Day

Nothing is easier than to see the Christ of the Sermon on the Mount as 'the first socialist' or communist, and though the majority of early socialist theorists were not Christians, many later members of socialists movements have found this reflection useful. Eric Hobsbawm

The priests have so disfigured the simple religion of Jesus that no one who reads the sophistications they have engrafted on it, from the jargon of Plato, of Aristotle & other mystics, would conceive these could have been fathered on the sublime preacher of the sermon on the mount. Thomas Jefferson

The Mountain is not merely something eternally sublime. It has a great historical and spiritual meaning for us ... From it came the Law, from it came the Gospel in the Sermon on the Mount. We may truly say that the highest religion is the Religion of the Mountain. Jan Smuts

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