Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
They that hunger and thirst after righteousness (oi peinwntev kai diywntev thn dikaiosunhn). Here Jesus turns one of the elemental human instincts to spiritual use. There is in all men hunger for food, for love, for God. It is passionate hunger and thirst for goodness, for holiness. The word for "filled" (xortasqhsontai) means to feed or to fatten cattle from the word for fodder or grass like Mark 6:39 "green grass" (xortov xlwrov).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 5:6:
Matthew 5:3
Matthew 14:20
Luke 6:21
Luke 10:23
Acts 20:35
James 1:25
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