Augustine of Hippo : And he led you for forty years in the desert. Your clothes did not age, and your skins were not broken by your feet. You did not eat bread; you did not drink wine or fermented drink, so that you would know that this is the Lord your God. From this it follows that the Israelites were able to carry in their impediment, when they left Egypt, the amount of wine they could consume immediately, because if they had not taken anything with them, where would that come from what has been said: The people sat down to eat and they got up to play? (Exodus 32,6) Because this could not be said of the water, when the clear words of Moses are that this affirmation was not the beginning of a war, but the beginning of a party (Cf Exodus 32,6.18). — QUESTIONS ON DEUTERONOMY, Q. 51 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)