Blessed
are the meek - those who are of a quiet, gentle spirit, in opposition to the
proud and supercilious Scribes and Pharisees and their disciples. We have a
compound word in English, which once fully expressed the meaning of the
original, viz. gentleman; but it has now almost wholly lost its original
signification. Our word meek comes from the old Anglo-saxon meca, or
meccea, a companion or equal, because he who is of a meek or gentle spirit,
is ever ready to associate with the meanest of those who fear God, feeling
himself superior to none; and well knowing that he has nothing of spiritual or
temporal good but what he has received from the mere bounty of God, having never
deserved any favor from his hand. - Adam Clarke
The
meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority.
Rather he may be in his moral life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson;
but he has stopped being fooled about himself. He has accepted God's estimate of
his own life. - A.W. Tozer
Blessed
are the meek.... who are not easily provoked to anger; who patiently bear, and
put up with injuries and affronts; carry themselves courteously, and affably to
all; have the meanest thoughts of themselves, and the best of others; do not
envy the gifts and graces of other men; are willing to be instructed and
admonished, by the meanest of the saints; quietly submit to the will of God, in
adverse dispensations of providence; and ascribe all they have, and are, to the
grace of God. Meekness, or humility, is very valuable and commendable. - John
Gill
Blessed
are the meek - those who are of a quiet, gentle spirit, in opposition to the
proud and supercilious Scribes and Pharisees and their disciples. We have a
compound word in English, which once fully expressed the meaning of the
original, viz. gentleman; but it has now almost wholly lost its original
signification. Our word meek comes from the old Anglo-saxon meca, or
meccea, a companion or equal, because he who is of a meek or gentle spirit,
is ever ready to associate with the meanest of those who fear God, feeling
himself superior to none; and well knowing that he has nothing of spiritual or
temporal good but what he has received from the mere bounty of God, having never
deserved any favor from his hand. - Adam Clarke
The
meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority.
Rather he may be in his moral life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson;
but he has stopped being fooled about himself. He has accepted God's estimate of
his own life. - A.W. Tozer
Blessed
are the meek.... who are not easily provoked to anger; who patiently bear, and
put up with injuries and affronts; carry themselves courteously, and affably to
all; have the meanest thoughts of themselves, and the best of others; do not
envy the gifts and graces of other men; are willing to be instructed and
admonished, by the meanest of the saints; quietly submit to the will of God, in
adverse dispensations of providence; and ascribe all they have, and are, to the
grace of God. Meekness, or humility, is very valuable and commendable. - John
Gill