For your nature showed your sweetness toward your children, while that bread, serving the desire of the eater, changed itself according to every man’s choice.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 21. Sustenance. Lit. “substance,” which some explain ( Calmet.) of God himself preparing this delicious food. Naz. or. xlix.—Liked. So that if a person wished to eat an egg, and so forth the manna became one, without altering its appearance, which is the case in the blessed Eucharist. Valentia, 4 disp. 6. and so forth—But this opinion supposes a continued miracle, which seems not necessary, and it is generally believed that the taste alone was changed, which Saint Augustine and others restrain to God’s faithful servants, otherwise the Hebrews could not have been disgusted with manna. Numbers 11:6 and 21:5. To these it was therefore simply manna. But the others found in it whatever they could desire. Saint Gregory Mor. vi. 9.—Yet according to others, ( Bible.) both enjoyed the same privilege. Menochius.—We cannot account for men’s fancies.