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| Chapter LVII.—The Jew objects, why is He said to have eaten, if He be God? Answer of Justin.
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Chapter LVII.—The Jew objects, why is
He said to have eaten, if He be God? Answer of Justin.
Then Trypho said
when I was silent, “That Scripture compels us to admit this, is
manifest; but there is a matter about which we are deservedly at a loss
—namely, about what was said to the effect that [the Lord] ate
what was prepared and placed before him by Abraham; and you would admit
this.”
I answered, “It is written that they ate; and if
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that it is said the three ate, and not
the two alone—who were really angels, and are nourished in the
heavens, as is evident to us, even though they are not nourished by food
similar to that which mortals use—(for, concerning the sustenance
of manna which supported your fathers in the desert, Scripture speaks
thus, that they ate angels’ food): [if we believe that three ate],
then I would say that the Scripture which affirms they ate bears the same
meaning as when we would say about fire that it has devoured all things;
yet it is not certainly understood that they ate, masticating with teeth
and jaws. So that not even here should we be at a loss about anything, if
we are acquainted even slightly with figurative modes of expression, and
able to rise above them.”
And Trypho said, “It is possible that [the
question] about the mode of eating may be thus explained: [the mode, that
is to say,] in which it is written, they took and ate what had been
prepared by Abraham: so that you may now proceed to explain to us how
this God who appeared to Abraham, and is minister to God the Maker of all
things, being born of the Virgin, became man, of like passions with all,
as you said previously.”
Then I replied, “Permit me first, Trypho, to
collect some other proofs on this head, so that you, by the large number
of them, may be persuaded of [the truth of] it, and thereafter I shall
explain what you ask.”
And he said, “Do as seems good to you; for I
shall be thoroughly pleased.”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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