the sermon on the mount was given at the mountain.
where was the sermon on the mount given?
the mountain
the sermon starts with a set of teachings about the four beatitudes and the four woes. the sermon may be compared with the more extensive sermon on the mount as recounted by the gospel of matthew. both seem to occur shortly after the commissioning of the twelve apostles featuring jesus on a mountain. in luke, he delivers the sermon below the mountain at a level spot: lutheran theologian johann bengel suggests perhaps half-way down the mountain: "a more suitable locality for addressing a large audience than a completely level plain". some scholars believe that the sermon on the mount and the sermon on the plain are the same sermon, while others hold that jesus frequently preached similar themes in different places. luke will later relate the six woes of the pharisees.
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what protests the german bishops did make regarding anti-jewish policies, tended to be by way of private letters to government ministers. traditional christian anti-judaism was "no bulwark" against nazi biological antisemitism, wrote kershaw, and on these issues opposition was generally left to fragmented and largely individual efforts. bishops konrad von preysing and clemens august graf von galen assisted with the drafting of pope pius xi's 1937 german encyclical "mit brennender sorge", which was written partly in response to the nuremberg laws. the papal letter condemned racial theories and the mistreatment of people based on race. according to gill, "hitler was beside himself with rage. twelve presses were seized, and hundreds of people sent either to prison or the camps". this despite article 4 of the reichskonkordat guaranteeing freedom of correspondence between the vatican and the german clergy, later, in pius xii's first encyclical, summi pontificatus, which came only a month into the war, the church reiterated the catholic stance against racism and anti-semitism: "there is neither gentile nor jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian nor scythian, bond nor free. but christ is all and in all" and endorsed resistance against those opposed to the ethical content of "the revelation on sinai" (the ten commandments given to moses) and the sermon on the mount given by jesus.
catholic bishops in nazi germany