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Basil of Caesarea, on 1Pet 2:3
Basil of Caesarea · c. A.D. 330–379
1Pet 2:3 · Douay-Rheims
“If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet.”
On this verse:
“Everywhere we notice that the various facets of the soul are designated by outward things. Thus when our Lord is described as the true bread and his flesh as the true food, we must understand this as meaning that the pleasure of right reason is like the taste of bread. Just as it is impossible for someone to know what honey is like simply by being told about it, because he must taste it in order to find out, so too the goodness of the heavenly bread is not properly communicated by teaching alone. We must taste the goodness of the Lord by our own experience.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.