The Kingdom of Heaven
idea · 3 works · 4 mentions · 9 anchored passages
the kingdom of heaven · the kingdom of God · that immortal kingdom · the good hope
spoken of as
1 expressionKingdom of Heaven1 mention
Barlaam and Josaphat (Greek)
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
in the texts
Barlaam and Josaphat
The heavenly reward promised to believers after judgment.
And what is it that you call the kingdom of heaven?
"The good hope of which I spoke is the kingdom of heaven;
From there the Master, calling the righteous 'blessed,' brings them into the kingdom that has no end;
Who Is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved?
The promised realm of eternal life and salvation that the rich man seeks to inherit.
How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
It behoves, then, those who are disposed to love the truth and to love their brethren—neither rashly and arrogantly looking down upon the rich who are called, nor again cringing to them out of their own love of gain—first to remove from them by the word the empty despair, and to show, with the requisite exposition of the Lord's sayings, that the inheritance of the kingdom of heaven is not utterly …
For the man who holds his possessions and gold and silver and houses as gifts of God, and ministers from them, to the God who gives, toward the salvation of men, and knows that he possesses these for his brethren's sake rather than his own, and is master of his possessions rather than their slave, not carrying them about in his soul, nor bounding and circumscribing his own life within them, but ev …
The Rights of War and Peace
The new law or dispensation announced by John and fulfilled by Christ, discussed to interpret their relationship.
Christ himself says the kingdom of Heaven began to suffer violence from the days of John the Baptist.