Talk:Matthew 5

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The content of Expounding of the Law was merged into Matthew 5. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. For the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

POV issues of this article is discussed at another in the series. See Talk:Matthew 1 ~~~~ 20:17, 9 July 2005 (UTC)Reply

For a (now finished) July 2005 survey about whether or not the full source text should be included in the article see Wikipedia:Bible source text.

There were 36 non-abstaining votes, and 3 abstensions.

The result of the survey was a 70% vote that it should not be included in the text, and should be removed in favour of a link to the text at wikisource. ~~~~ 07:51, 22 July 2005 (UTC)Reply

More than that, several of the should be included votes say that as much biblical text should be included as is needed to make sense of the entry. Pilatus 17:18, 4 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

I feel that the Sermon on the Mount should be treated as one unit instead of subdividing the discussion into chapters of 5 to 7. Certainly the text itself views it an one unit. The Sermon on the Mount starts in 5:2 as "And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying" and ends with in 7:28 with "And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine." Pilatus 14:42, 4 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

The literature on the Sermon on the Mount is vast, it is certainly possible to have a main article, three articles on subsections, and the hundred or so articles on each verse without a great deal of overlap. - SimonP 14:45, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

I feel that using chapters as subsections is a bit artificial - typically each chapter of the gospels contains two or three subheadings, some important, some less so. Pilatus 15:07, 4 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

I agree that it is completely artificial, but it is also a set standard for dividing the Bible. One that has held for many centuries. = SimonP 15:52, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

Chapters and verses are useful for references, however they are not encyclopedic topics. The heading Benedictions is immensely more appropiate than Matthew 5:1-12. 129.215.194.206 17:14, 4 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

This issue is much discussed please see Wikipedia:Merge/Bible verses, for instance. - SimonP 18:31, August 4, 2005 (UTC)