5. The poor receive the message of the Gospel By the poor are undoubtedly meant those whose condition is wretched and despicable, and who are held in no estimation. However mean any person may be, his poverty is so far from being a ground of despair, that it ought rather to animate him with courage to seek Christ. But let us remember that none are accounted poor but those who are really such, or, in other words, who lie low and overwhelmed by a conviction of their poverty. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-6" class="com-number"
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source-manifest/cal— Calvin's Commentaries (PD)- evidence_grade: T_theological