Is the Sermon on the Mount a Christological text, meaning a text that primarily deals with the significance of the person of Christ, or is it more of a moral text, a collection of ethical exhortations for the daily life of the Christian?

The ancient Fathers who explained the Sermon, along with many more recent ones, including the author, believe that the person of Jesus is so inseparably linked to what He teaches about the characteristics of the disciple-Christian that it is impossible to say what is more and what is less.

Therefore, the Christological and the moral-church explanatory interpretations of the Sermon go hand in hand.