ACC ~ Mark 2 v25

THE HUNGER OF JESUS

AUGUSTINE: It is foolish to believe the Evangelist’s account that he ate and not to believe that he was really hungry. Yet it does not follow that everyone who eats is hungry. For we read that even an angel ate, [1] but we do not read that he was hungry. Nor does it follow that everyone who is hungry eats. He may either restrain himself due to some obligation or lack food or the means to eat. … Now, just as the fact that Jesus ate food is unintelligible without a body, so the fact that he felt hunger is impossible without a soul. AGAINST THE APOLLINARIANS, QUESTION 80. [2]

[1] Gen 18:8.

[2] Cetedoc 0289, 80.103; FC 70:210-11*. The incarnate Lord had a body and a soul like ours, for he could hardly eat without a body, and he could hardly be hungry without a soul. Some heretical voices were denying that he had a body, others a soul.