As I am preaching on Matthew Five these days, I was reading Archibald Thomas Robertson’s “Word Pictures in the New Testament,” I found him mention a phrase from this rendering of the text.<\/p>\n
As a Scotsman, I had to post it here. If ye cannie read i’ for yerself, ya kin listen here<\/a> with Real Player.<\/p>\n ~Steve<\/p>\n 1. And, seeing the thrang o\u2019 folk, he gaed up intil a mountain; and whan he was sutten-doon, his disciples gather\u2019t aboot. <\/em><\/p>\n 2. And he open\u2019t his mooth, and instuctit them; and quo\u2019 he: <\/em><\/p>\n 3. \u201cHappy the spirits that are lown and cannie: for the kingdom o\u2019 Heeven is waitin\u2019 for them! <\/em><\/p>\n 4. \u201cHappy they wha are makin their maen; for they sal fin\u2019 comfort and peace. <\/em><\/p>\n 5. \u201cHappy the lowly and meek o\u2019 the yirth: for the yirth sal be their ain haddin. <\/em><\/p>\n 6. \u201cHappy they whase hunger and drouth are a\u2019 for holiness: for they sal be satisy\u2019t! <\/em><\/p>\n 7. \u201cHappy the pitifu\u2019: for they sal win pitie theirsels! <\/em><\/p>\n 8. \u201cHappy the pure-heartit: for their een sal dwal upon God! <\/em><\/p>\n 9.\u201dHappy the makkers-up o\u2019 strife: for they sal be coontit for bairns o\u2019 God! <\/em><\/p>\n 10. \u201cHappy the ill-treatit anes for the sake o\u2019 gude: for they\u2019se hae the kingdom o\u2019 God!<\/em><\/p>\n 11. \u201cHappy sal ye be whan folk sal misca\u2019 ye, and ill-treat ye, and say a\u2019 things again ye wrangouslie for my sake! <\/em><\/p>\n 12. \u201cJoy ye, and be blithe! For yere meed is great in Heeven! For e\u2019en sae did they to the prophets afore ye! <\/em><\/p>\n 13. \u201cThe saut o\u2019 the yirth are ye: but gin the saut hae tint its tang, hoo\u2019s it to be sautit? Is it no clean useless? To be cuisten oot, and trauche\u2019t under folk\u2019s feet. <\/em><\/p>\n 14. \u201cYe are the warld\u2019s licht. A toon biggit on a hill-tap is aye seen. <\/em><\/p>\n 15, \u201cNor wad men licht a crusie, and pit it neath a cog, but set it up; and it gies licht to a\u2019 the hoose. <\/em><\/p>\n 16. \u201cSae lat yere licht gang abreid amang men: that seein yere gude warks they may gie God glorie<\/em><\/p>\n Matthew Chaiptir Fyve, verses 1-16, frae The Four Gospels in Braid Scots \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Rev William W Smith<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I am preaching on Matthew Five these days, I was reading Archibald Thomas Robertson’s “Word Pictures in the New Testament,” I found him mention a phrase from this rendering of the text. As a Scotsman, I had to post … Continue reading