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Poverty of spirit, then, as it means the first step we take in running the race that is set before us, is a just sense of our inward and outward sins, and of our guilt and helplessness.Some have monstrously styled this the virtue of humility, thus teaching us to be proud of knowing we deserve damnation.But our Lord's expression is quite of another kind.It conveys no idea to the hearer but that of mere want, of naked sin, of helpless guilt and misery.
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7. Poverty of spirit then, as it implies the first step we take in running the race which is set before us, is, a just sense of our inward and outward sins, and of our guilt and helplessness. This some have monstrously stiled, the virtue of humility; thus teaching us to be proud of knowing we deserve damnation. But our Lord’s expression is quite of another kind; conveying no idea to the hearer, but that of mere want, of naked sin, of helpless guilt and misery.