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Mat_5:7. Οἱ ἐλεήμονες ] the compassionate (Heb_2:17; Hom. Od. v. 191) in general, not, as de Wette arbitrarily limits it, in opposition to the desire for revenge and cruelty against the heathen, which were contained in the ordinary Messianic hopes.
ἐλεηθήσονται ] that is, in this way, that they get assigned to them the salvation of the Messiah’s kingdom, which will be the highest act of the divine compassion, Luk_1:72; Rom_9:16; Rom_5:17. The divine maxim, which lies at the foundation of the statement, Mat_7:2; Mat_25:35. Kienlen is wrong when he says the ἐλεηθ . refers to the forgiveness of the sins which still cleave even to the regenerate; it points to this, that the entire bestowal of Messianic salvation is the work of divine grace, which follows in its procedure its own moral rules (faith working by love).