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The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 5:6

The blessedness of those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. "Blessed are they which do hunger … for they shall be filled." This Beatitude is, among all the others around it, as the spread banquet of religious meditation. It may have the just effect of surprising us, with a very unaccustomed hopefulness as to human nature. It challenges us to believe that there is left surviving still in us a germ and force of spiritual nature that can rise to appreciate that which is the highest of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 5:6

The Divine reward of the spiritually minded. St. Paul uses this word, "To be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." But there is a polemical, controversial, doctrinal force in his use, which we are not just now needing. Dr. Bushnell has a very striking sermon on "The Efficiency of the Passive Virtues'; but that is not precisely our Lord's point here, though they are "passive virtues" which he commends. They who "hunger and thirst after righteousness" are... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 5:6-7

Righteousness and mercy. The cry of humanity is after happiness. Men seek it in all manner of avenues. They are commonly mortified and disappointed. In the text we may learn— I. THAT IN RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE IS SATISFACTION . 1 . The sphere of intellect is filled with God. 2 . The sphere of affection is filled with God. 3 . Righteousness secures the highest favour. II. THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS MUST BE SOUGHT IN THE SPIRIT OF EARNESTNESS , ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 5:6-12

Five gates to happiness. We have already looked at three gates to happiness. Let us now proceed to examine the five that still remain to us. I. HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS . 1 . This is a desire for righteousness on its own account, and not for its rewards. It is very different from the merely selfish wish to escape from the penalty of sin. Righteousness is regarded as an end in itself. 2 . This is a deep appetite, like hunger and thirst. The most primitive,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Matthew 5:6

Blessed are they which do hunger ... - Hunger and thirst, here, are expressive of strong desire. Nothing would better express the strong desire which we ought to feel to obtain righteousness than hunger and thirst. No needs are so keen, none so imperiously demand supply, as these. They occur daily, and when long continued, as in case of those shipwrecked, and doomed to wander months or years over burning sands, with scarcely any drink or food, nothing is more distressing. An ardent desire for... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 5:6

Matthew 5:6. Blessed are they which hunger and thirst after righteousness That, instead of desiring the possessions of others, and endeavouring to obtain them by violence or deceit; and instead of coveting this world’s goods, sincerely, earnestly, and perseveringly desire universal holiness of heart and life, or deliverance from all sinful dispositions and practices, and a complete restoration of their souls to the image of God in which they were created: a just and beautiful description... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Matthew 5:1-12

THE SERMON ON THE MOUNTWhen people enter Jesus’ kingdom they enter a new life. They come under the rule of Jesus and, as his disciples, listen to his teaching and put it into practice. Their behaviour is not governed by a set of rules such as the law of Moses, but by the character of Jesus, who wants to reproduce that character in them. The collection of Jesus’ teachings commonly known as the Sermon on the Mount deals with the attitudes, behaviour and responsibilities of those who have come... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Matthew 5:6

hunger and thirst, &c. The idiom for a strong desire. Compare Psalms 42:1 , Psalms 42:2 ; Psalms 119:103 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Matthew 5:6

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.Alas, how many there are who manifest no hunger or thirst after the things of God; and what shall be said of this innumerable multitude? Why do they feel no hunger, no thirst? Like the absence of ordinary hunger, this spiritual lack of hunger is due to the awful cancer of sin gnawing out the heart of the victim. Others, already in the final throes of spiritual starvation, are past hunger and thirst. Some have... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 5:6

Matthew 5:6. Blessed are they which do hunger, &c.— Our Saviour uses the ideas of hunger and thirst metaphorically, to express vehement desire. By righteousness seems to be meant that holiness which the Gospel teaches and recommends, in opposition to the righteousness of Scribes and Pharisees. So that the persons here said to hunger and thirst are those who earnestly long for and are sensible of the want of that salvation which is procured by the Lord JesusChrist. This beatitude, therefore,... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 5:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 5:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 5:6-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 5:6-12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Matthew 5:6

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 5:6

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Matthew 5:1-12

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Matthew 5:6

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Matthew 5:6

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 5:6

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