• 1 – Introduction

    1 – Introduction

    Preface The Sermon on the Mount is Heaven’s benediction to the world—a voice from the throne of God. MB vii.1 It was given to mankind to be to them the law of duty and the light of heaven, their hope and consolation in despondency, their joy and comfort in all the vicissitudes and walks of life.…


  • Chapter 1—On the Mountainside

    Chapter 1—On the Mountainside

    More than fourteen centuries before Jesus was born in Bethlehem, the children of Israel gathered in the fair vale of Shechem, and from the mountains on either side the voices of the priests were heard proclaiming the blessings and the curses—“a blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God: … and a…