Nilus of Ancyra→Silvanus|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To the same person.
The great Moses spoke well in this too: "Not today, but tomorrow you shall eat meat" [Numbers 11:18], so that he might point to the time after the sojourning of Christ, who is God and Master of all. For those meats of the quail [the ortýgomētra, the quail-mother sent to the Hebrews in the wilderness] turned out, for the Hebrews, to bring wrath, and cramps, and corruption, and cholera; but our most blessed meat [the Eucharist, the flesh of Christ] bestows strength, and power, and increase, and good cheer, and eternal life upon all who are deemed worthy to partake of it.
The great Moses spoke well in this too: "Not today, but tomorrow you shall eat meat" [Numbers 11:18], so that he might point to the time after the sojourning of Christ, who is God and Master of all. For those meats of the quail [the ortýgomētra, the quail-mother sent to the Hebrews in the wilderness] turned out, for the Hebrews, to bring wrath, and cramps, and corruption, and cholera; but our most blessed meat [the Eucharist, the flesh of Christ] bestows strength, and power, and increase, and good cheer, and eternal life upon all who are deemed worthy to partake of it.
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