ACC ~ John 21 v12

RESURRECTED BODIES EAT OUT OF DESIRE, NOT NECESSITY

AUGUSTINE: The bodies of the righteous at the resurrection will need neither any fruit to preserve them from dying of disease or the wasting decay of old age nor any bodily nourishment to prevent hunger and thirst. For they will be endowed with such a sure and inviolable gift of immortality that they will not eat because they have to, but only if they want to. Not the power but the necessity of eating and drinking shall be taken away from them … just like our Savior after his resurrection took meat and drink with his disciples, with spiritual but still real flesh, not for the sake of nourishment, but in an exercise of his power. CITY OF GOD 13.22. [1]

[1] NPNF 1 2:256-57**.

THEY WERE IN AWE

CHRYSOSTOM: “They knew that it was the Lord,” and therefore they did not ask him, “Who are you?” But seeing that his form was altered and full of awe, they were greatly amazed and wanted to ask something about it. But fear, and their knowledge that he was not someone else but the same person, checked the inquiry, and they only ate what he created for them by exercising greater power than before. For here he no longer looks to heaven, nor does he perform those human acts he did before, thereby showing that those things that he did previously were done by way of condescension. HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 87.2. [1]

[1] ESUS IS INFORMED THAT LAZARUS IS SICK | JOHN 11:1-5

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