From Nave’s Topical Bible
Thirst
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 11Passages listed
- 6Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Figurative of the ardent desire of the devout mindPsalms 42:1–4Psalms 63:1Psalms 143:6Isaiah 55:1Amos 8:11–13Matthew 5:6John 4:14John 4:15John 7:37Revelation 21:6Revelation 22:17
- See Desire, Spiritual
- See Diligence
- See Hunger, Spiritual
- See Zeal
The passages, in Bible order (11)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 11 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Psalms 42:1–4
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
Commentary on Psalms 42:1–41 voice
This is the fifth decade of the first group of fifty, and thus it is ordered toward imploring help against present evils. And this is a figure of the temporal evils that befell David, who suffered persecution from Absalom—and against this was the first decade. …
Thomas Aquinas· Exposition on the Psalms of David, 1274Patristic
- Psalms 63:1
O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
Commentary on Psalms 63:11 voice
Therefore God gave us a pattern of fasting in this deed, so that having a desert, as it were, at the time of fasting we may abstain from feasts, pleasure and women, and so that Eve may not be joined with us so as to …
Maximus of Turin· SERMON 50A.4, 465Patristic
- Psalms 143:6
I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah
Commentary on Psalms 143:62 voices
I stretched out my hands to you. Bound by the enemy, I can do nothing else except do penance, and lift up my hands to you. My soul is as earth without water to you. As earth without water thirsts and seeks the rain, so too my soul longs for and thirsts after you, its God.
Jerome· Homily 53, on Psalm 142, 420Patristic
I stretch forth my hands unto thee,.... In prayer, as the Targum adds; for this is a prayer gesture, 1Ki 8:38; both hands were stretched forth, earnestly imploring help, and ready to receive and embrace every blessing bestowed with thankfulness; my soul thirsteth after thee as a thirsty land.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Isaiah 55:1
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
Commentary on Isaiah 55:12 voices
(Chapter 55, Verse 1) All you who are thirsty, come to the waters, and you who have no money, hurry and buy and eat; come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? LXX: You who are thirsty, go to the water, and you who have no money, go, buy and eat, and walk, and buy wine and fat without money and without price. Why do you spend money, and your labor not for satisfaction?
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters,.... These are the words not of the prophet, but of the Lord, as what follows throughout the chapter shows; and are directed to the Gentiles, as Aben Ezra thinks: and indeed their conversion is manifestly spoken of in it; and who, Kimchi says, after the war of Gog and Magog, shall know that the Lord reigns, and shall come and be desirous of learning his judgments and laws.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Amos 8:11–13
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
Commentary on Amos 8:11–132 voices
(Verse 11, 12) Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send forth (Vulgate: send) a famine upon the land: not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord. And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. In that day, the fair virgins and young men shall faint for thirst.
Jerome· Commentary on Amos, 420Patristic
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Commentary on Matthew 5:61 voice
(ubi sup.) As soon as I have wept for my sins, I begin to hunger and thirst after righteousness. He who is afflicted with any sore disease, hath no hunger.
Ambrose of Milan· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 397Patristic
- John 4:14
But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
Commentary on John 4:141 voice
Since the Son of God is always one and the same, He gives to those who believe on Him a well of water [springing up] to eternal life, but He causes the unfruitful fig-tree immediately to dry up; and in the days of Noah He justly brought on the deluge for the purpose of extinguishing that most infamous race of men then existent, who could not bring forth fruit to God, since the angels that sinned had commingled with them, and [acted as He did] in order that He might put a check upon the sins of these men, but [that at the same time] He might preserve the archetype, the formation of Adam.
Irenaeus· Against Heresies Book IV, Chapter XXXVI, 202Patristic
- John 4:15
The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water so that I will not get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
Commentary on John 4:152 voices
Give me this water, that I thirst not neither come hither to draw. Jesus saith unto her, Again does she both speak and imagine only ordinary things, and of the things that were said understands no whit; but she supposes that in being released from petty toils, will consist all the aim of our Saviour, and to thirsting no more does she bound the measure of the grace of God, not so much as in bare idea receiving things above the world.
Cyril of Alexandria· Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 2, 444Patristic
The woman saith unto him, Sir,.... See Gill on Joh 4:11; give me this water, that I thirst not. The Syriac and Persic versions add, "again": neither come hither; the Ethiopic version adds here, "again"; to draw.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
- John 7:37
On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
Commentary on John 7:372 voices
We must search well in this too, what it is the most wise Evangelist is hinting with some extreme great care, calling the last day of the feast great, or what it was that induced our Lord Jesus Christ, as of some needful reason and belonging to the time, to say on it to the Jews, If any man thirst let him come unto Me and drink. For He might have used other words, such as, I am the Light, I am the Truth.
Cyril of Alexandria· Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 5, 444Patristic
In the last day, that great day of the feast,.... That is, of tabernacles, as appears from Joh 7:2, which was usually called חג, "the feast", in distinction from the passover and Pentecost (q); and the eighth day of it was called הרגל האחרון, "the last day of the feast" (r), as here: and it was a "great day", being, as is said in Lev 23:36, an holy convocation, a solemn assembly, in which no servile work was done, and in which an offering was made by fire unto the Lord.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
- Revelation 21:6
And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.
Commentary on Revelation 21:61 voice
After these there were not wanting a Marcus and a Colarbasus, composing a novel heresy out of the Greek alphabet. For they affirm that without those letters truth cannot be found; nay more, that in those letters the whole plenitude and perfection of truth is comprised; for this was why Christ said, "I am the Alpha and the Omega." In fact, they say that Jesus Christ descended, that is, that the dove came down on Jesus; and, since the dove is styled by the Greek name peristera (peristera), it has in itself this number DCCCI.
Tertullian· Pseudo-Tertullian Against All Heresies, 220Patristic
- Revelation 22:17
The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.
Commentary on Revelation 22:171 voice
Since therefore we have such proofs, it is not necessary to seek the truth among others which it is easy to obtain from the Church; since the apostles, like a rich man [depositing his money] in a bank, lodged in her hands most copiously all things pertaining to the truth: so that every man, whosoever will, can draw from her the water of life. For she is the entrance to life; all others are thieves and robbers.
Irenaeus· Against Heresies Book III, 202Patristic