Matthew 5:6 (WEB)
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Catechism · 1
“Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven.” — Catechism footnote: Mt 5:3-12.
Fathers and councils · 57
Jerome
“That Lord, so you suppose, is a glutton who fasted forty days to hallow Christian fasting;who calls them blessed that hunger and thirst;who says that He has food, not that which the disciples surmised, but such as would not perish for ever;who…” — editor's note: S. Matt. v. 6.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
“(Matt. 5:6.)” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Then they say among themselves, It is not lawful to cast them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.” — editor's note: Ib. v. 6.
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Augustine of Hippo
“And Alypius, beginning again to hear me, was involved in the same superstition as I was, loving in the Manichæans that ostentation of continency which he believed to be true and unfeigned.” — editor's note: Augustin, in book v. sec. 9, above, refers to the reputed sanctity of Manichæus, and it may well be questioned whether the sect deserved that unmitigated…
Read the whole comment“…us, that we may be poor in spirit, and meek, and mourners, and hungering and athirst after righteousness, and merciful, and pure in heart, and peacemakers.” — editor's note: Matt. v. 3–9.
Read the whole comment“…they that mourn, blessed they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, blessed the merciful, blessed the pure in heart, blessed the peacemakers.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 3–9.
Read the whole comment“And again, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6; Luke i. 53; 1 Sam. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment““Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“If it were not eaten, the Lord would not have said, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“Therefore in this world we ought not to love fulness.” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“These are the good things of the House of God, with these prepare thyself to be satisfied.…“Blessed they which hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment““Seek the Lord,” ye needy, hunger ye and thirst; for He is Himself the living bread that came down from Heaven.” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“Because, “blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“For while He said, “Blessed are the hungry, for they shall be filled;” it is again said of Wisdom, “Those who eat Thee shall hunger again, and those who drink shall thirst again.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“For blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God: then shall the righteous be filled with that blessing for which they hunger and thirst now, while, walking in faith, they are absent from the Lord.” — editor's note: Matt. v. 8, 6.
Read the whole comment“Hear the feasts of the godly: “Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“After forgetfulness, let remembrance come, let bread be eaten from heaven, that we may live; not manna, as they did eat, and died; that bread, of which it is said, “Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“So understand it therefore of the bread as thou dost understand it of the wine; hunger inwardly, thirst inwardly: “Blessed are they,” saith our Lord, “who hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be filled.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“But He did not thus render them happy: for it was not that fulness of which it is said, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“…are therefore, though by God’s law, yet still endeavouring to set up their own righteousness; but as the son of promise, who hungering and athirst after it, by seeking, by asking, by knocking, as it were begs it of the Father, that being adopted he may receive it through His only-begotten Son.…His enemies sought…” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“Give me one who hungereth; give me one of whom it is said, “Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled:” and these will be the poor of whom he hath just said, “And will satisfy her poor with bread.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“For her voice is in every such prophecy the voice of one in need and want, not yet satisfied, “hungering and thirsting after righteousness,” for whom a certain fulness in the end hath been promised, and is reserved.…” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment““Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment““They shall be filled.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“For good were it for thee to say to God, “My soul hath thirsted for Thee.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxliii. 6; Ps. lxiii. 1; Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“Between these two famishing souls:—as it is written, “Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled:”—between these two famishing persons thou the doer of the good work art set; if charity does the work by occasion of the one, therein it hath pity on both, it would succor both.” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment““Blessed are the poor in spirit;” imitate Him, Who, whereas “He was rich, was made poor for your sakes.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 3–10
Read the whole comment“If it is wisdom through which the peacemakers are blessed, inasmuch as they shall be called the children of God; let us pray that we may be freed from evil, for that very freedom will make us free, i.e. sons of God, so that we may cry in the spirit of adoption, “Abba, Father.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 3–9.
Read the whole comment“Let us come to the fourth work and its reward, “Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“For, “Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment““For blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“In relation to it is it said, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“This bread, indeed, requires the hunger of the inner man: and hence He saith in another place, “Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“And our thirst is quenched from the rock in the wilderness: for “the Rock was Christ,” and it was smitten with a rod that the water might flow.” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“…to their going in and their going out,—yet there only will they find the true pasture. where they shall be filled who hunger and thirst after righteousness,—such pasture as was found by him to whom it was said, “To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis II.11Book II
“They add, moreover, that declaration, in which the Saviour calls those blessed who now hunger and thirst, promising them that they shall be satisfied; and many other scriptural illustrations are adduced by them, the meaning of which they do not perceive is to be taken figuratively.” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“And let it disturb no one, that when the divine Scripture speaks of baptism, it says that we thirst and drink, since the Lord also in the Gospel says, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness;” because what is received with a greedy and thirsting desire is drunk more fully and plentifully.” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“Of this same thing also in the Gospel according to Matthew: “Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be satisfied.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“We may also hear our Saviour saying, ‘Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.’” — editor's note: Prov. x. 3; Matt. v. 6; Ps. cxxxii. 15, he notices the various reading of the LXX, on the latter, Exp. in Ps. in loc.
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John Chrysostom
“Wherefore He said, “Thy sins be forgiven thee” ( Matt. ix. 2 ); and again, “But that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins (He saith to the sick of the palsy), Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.” ( Ibid. v. 6.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For to show that men ought ever to thirst and hunger, “Blessed,” It saith, “are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness” ( Matt. v. 6 ); and here Christ saith, “If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink.”” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment““Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
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Tertullian
“But I think that He must have likewise “fasted” inasmuch as He has pronounced, not “the full,” but “the hungry and thirsty, blessed:” (He) who was wont to profess “food” to be, not that which His disciples had supposed, but “the thorough doing of the Father’s work;” teaching “to labour for…” — editor's note: Comp. Luke vi. 21 and 25, and Matt. v. 6.
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Ambrose of Milan
“He knew how to hunger, for he knew that the hungry shall eat.” — editor's note: S. Matt. v. 6.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Further he provided the nourishment of the Word, and that more perfect bounty and distribution, which is really heavenly and from on high—if the word be that bread of angels, wherewith souls are fed and given to drink, who are a hungered for God, and seek for a food which does not pass away or fail, but abides forever.” — editor's note: Ib. lxiii. 1; S. Matt. v. 6.
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Aphrahat
“Let us hunger for righteousness, that we may be satisfied from the table of His Kingdom.” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
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Leo the Great
“…that in truth we may be of those of whom the very Truth speaks, “blessed are they which hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“A Homily on the Beatitudes, St. Matt. v. 1–9” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“And again, “Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after the righteousness of God.”” — editor's note: Matt. v. 6.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Matthew
As soon as I have wept for my sins, I begin to hunger and thirst after righteousness. He who is afficted with any sort disease, hath ho hunger.
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It is not enough that we desire righteousness, unless we also suffer hunger for it, by which expression we may understand that we are never righteous enough, but always hunger after works of righteousness.
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All good which men do not from love of the good itself is unpleasing before God. He hungers after righteousness who desires to walk according to the righteousness of God; he thirsts after righteousness who desires to…
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He may mean either general righteousness, or that particular virtue which is the opposite of covetousness. As He was going on to speak of mercy, He shews before hand of what kind our mercy should be, that it should…
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on Matthew
The blessedness which He appropriates to those who hunger and thirst after righteousness shews that the deep longing of the saints for the doctrine of God shall receive perfect replenishment in heaven; then “they…
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Such is the bounty of a rewarding God, that His gifts are greater than the desires of the saints.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
Or He speaks of food with which they shall be filled at this present; to wit, that food of which the Lord spake, “My food is to do the will of my Father,” that is, righteousness, and that water of which whoever…
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Or, this is again a promise of a temporal reward; for as covetousness is thought to make many rich, He affirms on the contrary that righteousness rather makes rich, for He who loves righteousness possesses all things…
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Cross-references · 16
Cited together in Confessions XI.1.
Cited together in Confessions VI.7.
Cited together in Bede on Luke 22:28–30 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 22:28–30 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 40.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.17 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Confessions XI.1.
Cited together in Confessions XI.1.
Cited together in Confessions VI.7.