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"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
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An Intense Craving
Commentators universally agree that 'hunger and thirst' signify more than a casual wish. They describe a deep, intense, and passionate desire for righteousness, comparable to the most basic and desperate human needs for food and water. This beatitude blesses those who feel a profound spiritual emptiness and ardently long for God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Blessed are they that hunger. Hunger and thirst, here, are expressive of strong desire. Nothing would better express the strong desire tha…
They that hunger and thirst after righteousness (ο πεινωντες κα διψωντες την δικαιοσυνην). Here Jesus turns one of the elemental h…
19th Century
Anglican
Those who hunger and thirst—In this, we seem to hear the lesson our Lord learned from His recent experience in the wilderness. The…
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Baptist
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness:
Pining to be holy, longing to serve God, anxious to spread every r…
“Hunger and thirst” vividly expresses desire (cf. Pss 42:2; 63:1). It is best to take “righteousness” (GK 1466) here as simultaneously personal rig…
16th Century
Protestant
Happy are they who hunger. To hunger and thirst is here, I think, used as a figurative expression366 and means to suff…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst Not after the riches, honours, and pleasures of this world, but
Our Savior here gives eight characteristics of blessed people, which represent to us the principal graces of a Christian.
The poor …
13th Century
Catholic
The Evangelist, above, set forth a kind of brief preamble to Christ’s teaching; now he relates the teaching itself and its effect, namely, the admi…
