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:
Sermon on the Mound Sermon on the Mound The Sermon on the Mound is the name given by the Scottish press to an address made by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland on 21 May 1988. The name is a play on Jesus' Sermon on the Mount and on the artificial hill in Edinburgh called the Mound, on which the Church's Assembly Hall stands, and the fact that Thatcher was preaching to a church and nation that consistently rejected her ideology. In the address, Thatcher offered a theological justification for her ideas on capitalism and the market