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How fortunate are those whose service to God is without ego or hypocrisy for one day they will see the Invisible One face-to-face.
[Mt 5.8, JMT]
Intentional or not, Jesus’ hearers would have heard echoes of Psalm 24.3-4.
And for the Psalmist, Deuteronomy 6.5 would have been ringing in his ears.
In spite of our eisegesis, the OT never, ever taught that ritual purity was enough for God.
Barclay gives us three shades of meaning for καθαρος (pure).
Clean like clothes after a good washing.
Winnowed or sifted like Gideon’s army.
Used with the adjective ακηρατος, unadulterated like wine not watered down or unalloyed like precious metal thoroughly refined.
καρδια (heart) helps us zoom in on the meaning Jesus has in view.
He was speaking about purity in one’s thoughts and motives, one’s inner being.
This foreshadows his teachings later in the SOM about murder and adultery.
This isn’t merely going through the rituals or even moral perfection.
We’re left with the question why do we do for God what we do?
The Gospel of Matthew, Volume 1 (The Bliss of the Clean Heart (Matthew 5:8))
Was it not John Bunyan who was once told by someone that he had preached well that day, and who answered sadly: ‘The devil already told me that as I was coming down the pulpit steps’?
The promise is a future reversal of Eden’s curse.
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