<p>5:9&nbsp;<em>Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God</em>- Samuel T. Lachs suggests another original text actually read &quot;Blessed are they that stumble&quot; (Lachs, p. 77), and this would fit with our suggestion made on 5:6 that the 'happy' people are those who are spiritually weak but are accepted and forgiven. However, the reference may be to the priesthood, with whom God made a covenant of peace, that they might bring Israel to peace with Him (Num. 25:12; Mal. 2:6). Just as the Lord encouraged the disciples to see themselves as Moses, so He inspires them with the thought that they, the nothing special, secular Jews, could and would take over the work of the priesthood.&nbsp; Rabbi Hillel &ldquo;exhorted his students to become disciples of Aaron, &lsquo;peace lovers and peacemakers&rsquo; (mAb1:12)&rdquo; (As quoted in Geza Vermes,&nbsp;<em>The Authentic Gospel of Jesus</em>&nbsp;(London: Penguin, 2004) p. 314).</p>