| Tobit 12:19
| I seemed, indeed, to eat, and to drink with you: but I use an invisible meat and drink, which cannot be seen by men.
| 1:Greek, "I appeared to you all the days; yet I did not eat nor drink. But you beheld a vision." (Haydock) --- Having an aerial body, he made the provisions disappear, as the sun melts snow, Genesis 18:9. (Calmet) --- He might swallow, though he had no need of meat, (St. Augustine, City of God 13:22.) or digestion, (Grotius) so as to convert it into his substance. (Menochius) --- Men. I constantly enjoy the beatific vision, Matthew 18:10. (Calmet)
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