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Mapapalad ang mga mapagpayapa: sapagka't sila'y tatawaging mga anak ng Dios.
От Brian David
"Peace" in the Bible is something a little more forceful and active than the normal idea we have of "peace"; it represents the harmony and one-ness we feel when our hearts and our minds are aligned with the Lord, when we want what He wants and understand the wisdom He bestows.
The language is tricky in this verse, though. "God" represents divine truth, or the most profound and perfect ideas expressing the Lord's love. But what the King James Version expresses as "children" is rendered as "sons" in more literal translations. "Sons" represent individual true ideas, or true ideas about specific things. "Children" represent a state of innocence and willingness to be led. So does this mean that those who become aligned with the Lord's love and wisdom will become forms of truth themselves, expressing ideas drawn from divine truth to help others? Or does it mean they will be innocent, and willing to follow the divine truth? Both make sense.
9808. 'From the midst of the children of Israel' means in heaven and in the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'Israel' as those who belong to the Church, thus in the abstract sense the Church itself, dealt with in 4286, 6426, 6637, 6862, 6868, 7035, 7062, 7198, 7201, 7215, 7223, 8805, 9340. And since 'Israel' means the Church it also means heaven; for heaven and the Church make one, and also the Church is the Lord's heaven on earth. Every member of the Church furthermore has heaven within himself when truth and at the same time good which come from the Lord reside in him.