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“It is a special pleasure to introduce R. T. (Dick) France’s commentary to the pastoral and scholarly community, who should find it a truly exceptional—and helpful—volume.” So says Gordon Fee in his preface to this work. France’s masterful commentary on Matthew focuses on exegesis of Matthew’s text as it stands rather than on the prehistory of the material or details of Synoptic comparison. The...

I take to oros to be a general term for the hill-country to the west and north of the Lake of Galilee, where the hills rise steeply from the lake. So the phrase need not denote a specific mountain; contrast the specific mention of “a (very) high mountain” in 4:8; 17:1 and the named mountain of 24:3.12 To that extent “Sermon on the Mount” is a misleading description, and no specific “mountain” can be safely identified as the site of this teaching. The setting of the sermon of Luke 6:20–49 apparently
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