Matthew 5:6
Douay-Rheims
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.
John Chrysostom
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.
Source details
A.D. 407 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:6
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.