80. He feeds the prophet, who understands and
keeps the things that are written. Our faith gives him
sustenance, our progress gives him nourishment; he feeds upon our minds
and senses, his discourse is nourished by our understanding. In
the morning we give him bread, who, being placed in the light of the
Gospel, bestow on him the settled strength of our hearts. By
these things he is nourished, by these he is strong, with these he
fills the mouths of those who fast, to whom the unbelief of the Jews
supplied no food of faith. To them every prophetic utterance is
but fasting diet, the interior richness of which they do not see; empty
and thin, such as cannot fatten their jaws.