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The Sermon on the Mount is a collection of teachings attributed to Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew, delivered on a hillside to his followers.

It contains some of Christianity's most quoted passages: the Beatitudes, the Lord's Prayer, and moral instructions like "turn the other cheek" and "love your enemies." The phrase sometimes describes any lengthy moral lecture: He launched into a sermon on the mount about my spending habits.

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Ten Commandments · Mosaic Law · divine wrath · apocalyptic prophecy

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Inscribed rock bearing laws

moral philosophy

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Punishment matching the offense

law of the jungle · social Darwinism · realpolitik · survival of the fittest · retributive justice

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