Matthew 5:6

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH DO HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS, [ teen (G3588 ) dikaiosuneen (G1343 ) = tsªdaaqaah (H6666 )]: FOR THEY SHALL BE FILLED, [ chortastheesontai (G5526)] - 'shall be saturated.' 'From this verse,' says Tholuck, 'the reference to the Old Testament background ceases.' Surprising! On the contrary, none of the beatitudes is more manifestly dug out of the rich mine of the Old Testament. Indeed, how could anyone who foun...

6._Happy are they who hunger _To _hunger and thirst _is here, I think, used as a figurative expression, (366) and means to suffer poverty, to want the necessaries of life, and even to be defrauded of one’s right. Matthew says, _who thirst after righteousness, _and thus makes one class stand for all the rest. He represents more strongly the unworthy treatment which they have received, when he says that, though they are anxious, though they groan, they desire nothing but what is proper. “Happy are they who, though their wishes are so moderate, that they desire nothing to be granted to them but what is reasonable, are yet in a languishing condition, like persons who are famishing with hunger.” Though their distressing anxiety exposes them to the ridicule of others, yet it is a certain preparation for _happiness: _for at length _they shall be satisfied _God will one day listen to their groan...

3-12 Our Saviour here gives eight characters of blessed people, which represent to us the principal graces of a Christian. 1. The poor in spirit are happy. These bring their minds to their condition, when it is a low condition. They are humble and lowly in their own eyes. They see their want, bewail their guilt, and thirst after a Redeemer. The kingdom of grace is of such; the kingdom of glory is for them. 2. Those that mourn are happy. That godly sorrow which worketh true repentance, watchfulness, a humble mind, and continual dependence for acceptance on the mercy of God in Christ Jesus, with constant seeking the Holy Spirit, to cleanse away the remaining evil, seems here to be intended. Heaven is the joy of our Lord; a mountain of joy, to which our way is through a vale of tears. Such mourners shall be comforted by their God. 3. The meek are happy. The meek are those who quietly submi...

Verse Matthew 5:6. _THEY WHICH DO HUNGER AND THIRST_] As the body has its natural appetites of hunger and thirst for the food and drink suited to its nourishment, so has the soul. No being is _indestructible_ or _unfailing_ in its nature but GOD; no being is _independent_ but him: as the body _depends_ for its nourishment, health, and strength upon the _earth_, so does the soul upon _heaven_. Heavenly things cannot support the _body_; they are not suited to its nature: _earthly_ things cannot support the _soul_, for the same reason. When the uneasy sensation termed _hunger_ takes place in the stomach, we know we must get food or perish. When the soul is awakened to a tense of its wants, and begins to _hunger_ and _thirst_ after righteousness or _holiness_, which is its proper food, we know that it must be purified by the...

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 anything is often represented in the Scriptures by hunger and thirst, Psalms 42:1; Psalms 63:1. A desire for the blessings of pardon and peace; a deep sense of sin, and want, and wretchedness, is also represented by thirsting,...

EXPOSITION MATTHEW 5:1 AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES; _i.e. _those spoken of in Matthew 4:25—the multitudes who were at that point of time following him. HE WENT UP. From the lower ground by the lake. INTO A MOUNTAIN; Revised Version, _into the mountain _(εἰς τὸ ὄρος);_ i.e. _not any special mountain, but "the mountain nearest the place spoken of—the mountain near by" (Thayer); in contrast to any lower place, whether that was itself fairly high ground (as probably Luke 9:28) or the shore of the lake. The actual spot here referred to may have been far from, or, and more probably ...

BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH DO HUNGER AND THIRST,.... Not after the riches, honours, and pleasures of this world, but AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS; by which is meant, not justice and equity, as persons oppressed and injured; nor a moral, legal righteousness, which the generality of the Jewish nation were eagerly pursuing; but the justifying righteousness of Christ, which is imputed by God the Father, and received by faith. To "hunger and thirst" after this, supposes a want of righteousness, which is the case of all men; a sense of want of it, which is only perceived by persons spiritually enlightened; a discovery of the righteousness of Christ to them, which is made in the Gospel, and by the Spirit of God; a value for it, and a preference of it to all other righteousness; and an earnest desire after it, to be possessed of it, and found in it; and that nothing can be more grateful than that, because o...

Matthew 5:1. _And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain:_ For convenience, and quietude, and to be out of the way of traffic, he went up into a mountain. Elevated doctrines would seem most at home on the high places of the earth. Matthew 5:1. _And when he was set,_ For that was the mode of Eastern teaching, Matthew 5:1. _His disciples came unto him:_ They made the inner ring around him, and others gathered around them. Matthew 5:2. _And he opened his mouth, and taught them,_ Chrysostom says that he taught them even when he did not open his

5. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE KING CONCERNING HIS KINGDOM. CHAPTER S 5-7 _ 1. The Characteristics of the heirs of the Kingdom.(Matthew 5:1 .) 2. The Confirmation of the Law and its Expansion.(Matthew 5:17 .)_ CHAPTER 5 In the closing of the last chapter we saw our Lord Jesus Christ surrounded by a great multitude of people, which followed Him and who were attracted by the King's presence, before whom the various diseases had to flee. If we turn to the eighth chapter we find the continuation of these scenes we had in the last half of the fourth chapter. Between these two Chapter s are three very important ones, which are as such found only in this Gospel. The contents of the fifth, sixth and seventh Chapter s are in the form of a continued discourse of our Lord, commonly called “t

THE BEATITUDES (_cf._ Luke 6:20). These nine sayings (eight if we reckon Matthew 5:10 as one, or regard Matthew 5:11 f. as having originally stood elsewhere; seven if we omit Matthew 5:5) have analogies in OT (_e.g._ Psalms 1:1; Psalms 32:1; Psalms 89:15; Proverbs 8:32;...