Sermon on the Mount
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6.2
- noun
- /ˈsɜrmən ɒn ðə maʊnt/
- Literature
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Sermón del Monte
- Living under the tyranny and militarism of the Roman Empire, Jesus proclaimed the nonviolent ethic of the Sermon on the Mount.
- Sermon on the Mount, Jesus
- live the Sermon on the Mount
- read the Sermon on the Mount
The first one is that one from the Sermon on the Mount.
- The first one is that one from the Sermon on the Mount.
- One of the things I've thought about a fair bit is the meaning of the Sermon on the Mount.
- Say, for example, in the Beatitudes at the very beginning of the Sermon on the Mount.
- And he says, you know, an example of this is Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount seeing adultery in the very act of looking at a woman to lust after her.
Examples
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Well, today's gospel reading from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount gives us a sort of battle plan.
Blog text (25) -
The word blessed in the Sermon on the Mount is often translated or paraphrased as happy.
Blog text (8) -
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says: "Do not be anxious about your life...."
Academic text (1993) -
Even our Lord gave instruction on this in the Sermon on the Mount.
Blog text (26) -
It's kind of the direct opposite of the stance Jesus takes in the Sermon on the Mount.
Blog text (31) -
How many beatitudes are in the Sermon on the Mount?
Blog text (14) -
That's why Jesus spoke as he did in the Sermon on the Mount: if you hate, you are a murderer.
Blog text (18) -
A lot of nights, I've stayed up late in bed reading my favorite passage, the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew.
Fiction book (1997) -
Being a prophet is tough work, but it has great rewards (cf. Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, Matthew chapter 5).
Blog text (34) -
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus taught his followers about love and forgiveness.
Synonyms
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2.8
A talk about religion or morals given during a church service
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3.6
A speech about religion given during a church service
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9.2
A short talk in a church about moral or religious ideas
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8.2
A talk about religion given during a church service
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9.9
A religious speech that gives moral advice
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal composition ('sermon' + 'on' + 'mount') yields a clear image of a religious address delivered on a hill, which a B1 learner who knows the words can infer. However, the extended idiomatic use as an archetypal, comprehensive moral guide depends on specific biblical and cultural knowledge rather than pure compositional semantics, so the full metaphorical meaning is not fully predictable.
Etymology
Sermon on the Mount comes from a Bible story where Jesus stood on a mount, a word for 'hill', and gave a long moral sermon to a crowd of people. That's why the phrase means 'the moral teachings of Jesus'.