the soul would take for food might bring about our ruin and death instead of life. Therefore it may not be amiss to elucidate the sense of this by some further inquiry into the Gospel. He who had everything in common with us except sin, and who shared all our sufferings, did not think hunger a sin. Therefore He did not refuse Himself to undergo this experience, but accepted the natural instinct to desire food. Having remained forty days without food, He afterwards was hungry; for when He desired