ACC ~ Acts 10 v41

PROOF OF THE RESURRECTION. THEODORET OF CYR: For since eating is proper to them that live this present life, of necessity the Lord by means of eating and drinking proved the resurrection of the flesh to those who did not acknowledge it to be real. This same course he pursued in the case of Lazarus and of Jairus’s daughter. For when he had raised up the latter he ordered that something should be given her to eat, and he made Lazarus sit with him at the tableand so showed the reality of the rising again. DIALOGUE 2.

BELIEVING IN CHRIST IS EATING WITH CHRIST. SEVERUS OF ANTIOCH: Now, certainly, he shared a new food, one not in accord with the prior order in which he had eaten and drunk with them before the resurrection. For at that time, having been made similar to us in everything except for sin, he ate and drank just as we do. Moreover, clothing himself in the flesh, he willingly sought the benefit of nourishment, and so he willingly assimilated himself to the experience of hunger. After the resurrection he did not need to eat or drink anymore, but only as one believed in by and as one giving evidence to his intimate disciples. Another reason [he ate and drank was that] those who later on were to believe in the true nature of the body—that body that suffered voluntarily and arose in a divine way (totally driving away the idea of an accursed apparition and phantasm)—needed these actions. After the resurrection, he named food and drink for himself together with his disciples, not according to his previous practice but something new. CATENA ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 10.42.

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