<P> The phrase "poor in spirit" (πτωχοὶ τῷ πνεύματι) in Matthew 5: 3 has been subject to a variety of interpretations . A.W. Tozer describes poverty of spirit as "an inward state paralleling the outward circumstances of the common beggar in the streets ." </P> <Dl> <Dd> These blessed poor are no longer slaves to the tyranny of things . They have broken the yoke of the oppressor; and this they have done not by fighting but by surrendering . Though free from all sense of possessing, they yet possess all things . "Theirs is the kingdom of heaven ." </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> These blessed poor are no longer slaves to the tyranny of things . They have broken the yoke of the oppressor; and this they have done not by fighting but by surrendering . Though free from all sense of possessing, they yet possess all things . "Theirs is the kingdom of heaven ." </Dd> <P> William Burnet Wright, seeking to avoid a common misunderstanding of the meaning of poverty of spirit, distinguishes those who are "poor in spirit" from those he calls "poor spirited," who "consider crawling the Christian's proper gait ." </P>

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