δοχὴν, the same word used by Lk. in reference to the feast in Levi's house, which was a gathering of the sort here recommended by Jesus. μακάριος, here and always denoting rare virtue and felicity = the pleasure of doing a kindness not to be repaid, except at the resurrection of the just, or by the joy that every really beneficent action brings now. τῶν δικαίων : in specifying the righteous as the subjects of the resurrection the Speaker has no intention of indicating an opinion as to the unrighteous: whether they rise at all, or when.

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Old Testament