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All these days I appeared to you. I didn’t eat or drink, but you all saw a vision.
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Verse 19. I. Greek “I appeared to you all the days; yet I did not eat nor drink. But you beheld a vision.” Bible.—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, (Saint Augustine de Civ. Dei. xiii. 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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