[147] Bhikkhus, possessing eight qualities a bhikkhu is worthy of gifts (āhuneyya), worthy of hospitality (pāhuneyya), worthy of offerings (dakkhiṇeyya), worthy of reverential salutation (añjalikaraṇīya), an unsurpassed field of merit for the world. What eight? Here, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu is virtuous … he trains in the training rules, having undertaken them; he is much learned … well penetrated by view; he has good friends, good companions, good comrades; he is one of right view, possessed of right vision (sammādassana); he is one who gains at will, without trouble, without difficulty, the four jhānas that pertain to the higher mind and are pleasant dwellings in this very life; he recollects his manifold past abodes, that is: one birth, two births … thus, with their aspects and particulars, he recollects his manifold past abodes; with the divine eye, purified and surpassing the human … he understands beings faring according to their kamma; with the destruction of the taints (āsava) … having realized it, he enters and dwells in it. Possessing these eight qualities, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu is worthy of gifts … an unsurpassed field of merit for the world.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.