The Answer Put Off Until After Supper

It is indeed a sign of the greatest blessedness and of singular goodness both to learn and to teach continually that love by which we cling to the Lord. Then meditation on him may, as the psalmist says, fill all the days and nights of our life, and may sustain our soul, which hungers and thirsts insatiably after righteousness, as it continually chews the cud of this heavenly food. [a]

But we must also, following the kind forethought of our Savior, make some provision for the body’s food, so that we do not faint on the way. For “the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” This we must now see to by taking a little food, so that after supper the mind may be made more attentive for carefully tracing out what you want to know.