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The sixth beatitude taken apart from every meaning the word purity carries in ordinary speech. It is not moral perfection and it has nothing whatever to do with sexual purity - the harlot given to love goes into heaven before the Pharisee, who washed the outside of the cup and kept every outward law. The Hebrew word is Tahor, clear, unalloyed, pure gold, used of a tract of land completely cleared of trees with no structure standing on it. Neville then triangulates the meaning across the Bible rather than defining it: Psalm 73 sets Israel as the pure in heart; John 1 defines the Israelite - behold an Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile, incapable of duplicity, and that, he says, is the heart; and Psalm 24 states the test twice over - who shall ascend the hill of the Lord and stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully. Reduced to one sentence it is a man incapable of deceit for personal gain. A story told for amusement, where you and I laugh together, is not deceit; a scheme to get the better of another in government, religion or business is. The scale he sets is deliberately shocking: Moses murdered the Egyptian and still saw the face of God, and murder in the heat of passion is not comparable, in God's eyes, to deceiving your neighbour - but to murder for personal gain is full of guile. Marrying someone with every outward appearance of love in order to be rid of them within a day for what they have is the example he gives of what does count.

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Bible wordings
Matthew 5:8 | Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God
John 1:47 | Behold an Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile
Psalm 24:4 | He who is of clean hands and the pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false, and does not swear deceitfully
Own wordings
a man that is incapable of deceit for personal gain
it is all to do with duplicity
No man who is incapable of bilking another can be bilked

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may I tell you that you need not think of moral perfection; and certainly, it does not refer in any way to sexual purity.
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though you starve, you still can’t take advantage of another. You’d rather be dispossessed; go through all the things of the world that would seemingly dishonor everyone.
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And Jesus looking at him said, “An Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile” . So that’s an Israelite, one in whom there is no guile, no deceit, and incapable of duplicity—that’s the true Israelite, and that’s the heart.
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So we bring the whole thing down just to one simple, simple voice: a man that is incapable of deceit for personal gain.
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I tell you, the tax collectors and the harlots will get into the kingdom of heaven before you” . For you are just then like the second son; he says, “I’ll do it,” but you don’t do it.
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Moses murdered the Egyptian who killed a Hebrew boy, and yet he saw God.
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he may be a very good soldier, a very good banker, a very good scientist, a very good and you name anything in this world, artist—and he need not be a good man.
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I wanted to congratulate her or congratulate him, but I couldn’t deny in my heart I wish I had done it.
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the word “pure” in Semitic speech includes mind and emotion, and has no reference whatsoever to sexual morality or any moral perfection, none.
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No man who is incapable of bilking another can be bilked. It isn’t his cup of tea. He doesn’t know how to operate that way.
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A most successful businessman, very successful, incapable of taking advantage of another for personal gain, in a highly competitive society, little, tiny Barbados, very competitive; but he could not take advantage of another for personal gain.
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