This second Beatitude was translated, “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.” Lawile can mean “mourners” (as translated from the Greek), but in Aramaic it also carries the sense of those who long deeply for something to occur, those troubled or in emotional turmoil, or those who are weak and in want from such longing. Netbayun can me…
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