Matthew 5:5 became submissive, but certainly not spineless. They embodied power under control, strength with forbearance. As one of the most famous of Beatitudes, "the meek shall inherit the earth" has appeared many times in works of art and popular culture: Matthew 5:5 Matthew 5:5 is the fifth verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. It is the third verse of the Sermon on the Mount, and also third of what are known as the Beatitudes. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: The World English Bible translates the passage as:
Fire Sermon of this discourse due to T. S. Eliot's titling the third section of his celebrated poem, "The Waste Land", "The Fire Sermon." In a footnote, Eliot states that this Buddhist discourse "corresponds in importance to the Sermon on the Mount." In the Vinaya, the Fire Sermon is the third discourse delivered by the Buddha (after the Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta and the Anattalakkhana Sutta), several months after his enlightenment, on top of the Gayasisa Hill, near Gaya, India. He delivered it to a thousand newly converted ascetics who formerly practiced a sacred fire ritual (Pali: "aggihutta"; Skt.: "agnihotra"). The 5th-century CE post-canonical