“Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.”
Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man — the fourth beatitude is specifically about persecution: the hatred, exclusion, insult, and rejection that come because of the Son of Man. The because of the Son of Man identifies the reason for the persecution — not general social difficulty but specifically the cost of identification with Jesus.
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