9/63 'I take no relish in corruptible food or in the pleasures of this life. I desire bread of God, heavenly bread, bread of life, which is the flesh of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was born in the latter days of the seed of David and Abraham; and I desire drink of God, His blood, which is love imperishable and ever-abiding life' [Endnote 275:1] (Ep. vii). This is compared with the discourse in the synagogue at Capernaum in the sixth chapter of St.John.It should be said that there is a difference of reading, though not one that materially influences the question, in the Syriac. |