164. In this food let us delight of which
the prophet says: “Delight thou in the
Lord.” Ps. xxxvii. 4. In this food
they delight, who have with wonderful knowledge learnt to take in the
higher delights; who can know what that delight is which is pure and
which can be understood by the mind. Let us therefore eat the
bread of wisdom, and let us be filled with the word of God. For
the life of man made in the image of God consists not in bread alone,
but in every word that cometh from God. S. Matt. iv. 4. About the cup, too, holy Job says,
plainly enough: “As the earth waiteth for the rain, so did
they for my words.” Job xxix. 23.