Or we may separate the terms, and consider them in reference to each kind of righteousness. Thus, hungering is an earnest appetite or desire for food, and here, in a spiritual sense, is appropriated to that first kind of righteousness which we understand by GOD’S sanctifying grace, and which is, as it were, bread to the soul, to sustain it from perishing eternally. So, hungering after righteousness is an eager, impatient, and unsatisfiable desire of grace, of sanctity to the soul, a desire not simply