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John Chrysostom
Catena Aurea · Matthäusevangelium 5
Mt 5, 6English original
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
He may mean either general righteousness, or that particular virtue which is the opposite of covetousness. (ἡ καθόλου ἀρετή.) As He was going on to speak of mercy, He shews beforehand of what kind our mercy should be, that it should not be of the gains of plunder or covetousness, hence He ascribes to righteousness that which is peculiar to avarice, namely, to hunger and thirst.