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Wisdom 16:20

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Instead of these things, you gave your people angels’ food to eat, and you provided ready-to-eat bread for them from heaven without toil, having the virtue of every pleasant flavor, and agreeable to every taste.

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Verse 20. Angels. See Exodus 16. Worthington.—If angels stood in need of food, they could have nothing more delicious. So water is styled honey, to denote its excellence. Psalms 77:25. Leviticus 20:24. Joel 3:18.—Taste. These expressions are figurative. Calmet.

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