23:3; 106:3; Pro. 12:28; 16:31; Isa. 64:5, &c.) As hunger and thirst are the keenest of our appetites, our Lord, by employing this figure here, plainly means ‘those whose deepest cravings are after spiritual blessings.’ And in the Old Testament we find this craving variously expressed:—“Hearken unto me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord” (Isa. 51:1); “I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord,” exclaimed dying Jacob (Gen. 49:18); “My soul,” says the sweet Psalmist, “breaketh
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