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Mat_5:10. Comp. 1Pe_3:14; 1Pe_4:14.
δικαιοσύν ., as in Mat_5:6 ἕνεκ . δικ ., is, as to substance, not different from ἕνεκεν ἐμοῦ , Mat_5:11. In communion with Christ there is righteousness, and in this ἕνεκεν ἐμοῦ is expressed the full Messianic consciousness,[396] the certain holy self-feeling of which for the persecuted begins (Act_9:4).
To take the αὐτῶν ἐστιν ἡ βασιλ . τ . οὐρ . differently from Mat_5:3 (Kienlen in d. Stud. u. Krit. 1848, p. 678: Mat_5:5 is the entrance into the kingdom of God; Mat_5:10, the consummation in the same, comp. Lange) is purely arbitrary. See rather the preceding remark.
[396] This putting forward the person as Lord and Master is, in Weizsäcker’s view, p. 151, a reason for regarding ver. 11 f. as a later explanation to the original text. But even in the whole train of the discourse that follows from ver. 17 onwards, such a personal assertion comes out strongly enough; comp. especially the constant symmetrical recurrence of ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν , and immediately in ver. 17 the expression of the Messianic consciousness, ἦλθον , κ . τ . λ .