{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The bodies of the righteous, then, such as they shall be in\r\nthe resurrection, shall need neither any fruit to preserve them\r\nfrom dying of disease or the wasting decay of old age, nor any\r\nother physical nourishment to allay the cravings of hunger or\r\nof thirst; for they shall be invested with so sure and every<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_547\">[Pg 547]</a></span>\r\nway inviolable an immortality, that they shall not eat save\r\nwhen they choose, nor be under the necessity of eating, while\r\nthey enjoy the power of doing so. For so also was it with\r\nthe angels who presented themselves to the eye and touch of\r\nmen, not because they could do no otherwise, but because\r\nthey were able and desirous to suit themselves to men by a\r\nkind of manhood ministry. For neither are we to suppose,\r\nwhen men receive them as guests, that the angels eat only in\r\nappearance, though to any who did not know them to be\r\nangels they might seem to eat from the same necessity as ourselves.\r\nSo these words spoken in the Book of Tobit, \"You\r\nsaw me eat, but you saw it but in vision;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_607_607\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_607_607\">[607]</a> that is, you thought\r\nI took food as you do for the sake of refreshing my body.\r\nBut if in the case of the angels another opinion seems more\r\ncapable of defence, certainly our faith leaves no room to doubt\r\nregarding our Lord Himself, that even after His resurrection,\r\nand when now in spiritual but yet real flesh, He ate and drank\r\nwith His disciples; for not the power, but the need, of eating\r\nand drinking is taken from these bodies. And so they will\r\nbe spiritual, not because they shall cease to be bodies, but\r\nbecause they shall subsist by the quickening spirit.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK THIRTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-941"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ad6cef056af83e2a5789d21a707b1d0093aea51573ef4e74685edfad6dbb4033","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume I","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Book IV)","J. J. Smith (Books V-VIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_607_607","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_607_607","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_607_607\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_607_607\"><span class=\"label\">[607]</span></a> Tobit xii. 19.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_607_607","text_sha256":"186d3fde7594bb80e2e8c3d16ad0bec64fa963ef20691fc1ec34e960e4fe119d","verified":false,"work_id":null}