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                        THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT




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              FIRST EDITION            _December, 1896_.
                    _Reprinted in the same month._
              _Reprinted_               _January, 1897_.
              _Reprinted_                 _March, 1897_.
              _Reprinted_                  _June, 1897_.
              _Reprinted_                 _March, 1898_.
              _Reprinted_              _December, 1898_.
              _Reprinted_                  _June, 1900_.
              _Reprinted_               _October, 1901_.
              _Reprinted_               _October, 1902_.
              _Reprinted_               _January, 1905_.

    _Edition (6d.) for distribution in paper covers, March, 1904._

              _Reprinted_               _October, 1904_.
              _Reprinted_                 _March, 1906_.
              SECOND EDITION (1/-)         _June, 1910_.
              _Reprinted_               _October, 1911_.
              THIRD EDITION (2/6)         _March, 1912_.




                        THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT

                        A PRACTICAL EXPOSITION

                 BY CHARLES GORE, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D.
                           BISHOP OF OXFORD


                                LONDON
                   JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
                                 1912


                          ALL RIGHTS RESERVED




                    PREFACE TO THE REISSUE OF 1910


IN reissuing this little book in a new form I wish, by way of preface,
to say a few words upon the passages (pp. 72‒78 and Appendix III.,
p. 227) in which I deal with the question of divorce in the Christian
Church. I am not prepared to alter the conclusions there drawn, so
far as they were drawn from the first Gospel, upon which alone I was
commenting. But I should wish to express a different opinion on the
relation of the statements about divorce in the first Gospel to those
given us by St. Mark and St. Luke.

The course of recent criticism seems to make it fairly certain that
we must regard the Gospels of St. Mark and St. Luke as giving us our
Lord’s teaching on this subject in its original form. They are as
follows:

_St. Mark_ x. 11, 12: “And he saith unto them, Whoso