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Meekness is power, not weakness

By George Moffett

From the November 2018 issue of The Christian Science Journal

Perhaps few words in the English language have been so misunderstood as the word meek, the object of Christ Jesus’ third beatitude: “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth” ( Matthew 5:5 ). By popular reckoning, meek means weak.