Matthew 5:6

Clement of Alexandria Who is the Rich Man that Shall Be Saved?

How? "In spirit." And again, "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after the righteousness of God."[20]

Tertullian On Fasting

How unworthy, also, is the way in which you interpret to the favour of your own lust the fact that the Lord "ate and drank" promiscuously! But I think that He must have likewise "fasted" inasmuch as He has pronounced, not "the full; "but "the hungry and thirsty, blessed: "[104]

Origen de Principiis Book II

They add, moreover, that declaration, in which the Saviour calls those blessed who now hunger and thirst,[189]

Cyprian Epistle LXII

And let it disturb no one, that when the divine Scrip-lure 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; "[18]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

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."[353]

Excerpts of Theodotus

For "blessed are they that hunger and thirst after" God's "righteousness; for they shall be filled."[30]