93. These interpretations should indeed be received with the respect due to the authority of such eminent Doctors. There is however one difficulty in this: that, by the ministry of Angels, the pillars of the cloud and fire, the quails, and the water from the rock were provided for the Hebrews, no less than the Manna; and yet they were not styled the pillar, the water or the beverage of Angels. Why therefore should Manna be called _Bread of Angels_, because provided by their ministry, when the qualification _Beverage of Angels_ is not given to the water drawn from the rock likewise by their ministry? Besides, in Holy Scripture, when it is said of bread that it is the _bread of somebody_, it is always the _bread of him_ who feeds on it, not of him who provides or makes it. Of this there are numberless instances: thus, _Exodus_, ch. 23, v. 25: “_That I may bless thy bread and thy water_;” _Kings_, book 2, ch. 12, v. 3: “_Eating of his bread_;” _Tobit_, ch. 4, v. 17: “_Give of thy bread to the hungry_,” and v. 18: “_Pour out thy bread on the burial of the Just_;” _Ecclesiasticus_, ch. 11, v. 1: “_Scatter thy bread over the flowing waters_;” _Isaiah_, ch. 58, v. 7: “_Deal thy bread to the hungry_;” _Jeremiah_, ch. 11, v. 19: “_Let us put wood into his bread_;” _Matthew_, ch. 15, v. 26: “_It is not meet to take the children’s bread_;” _Luke_, ch. 11, v. 3: “_Our daily bread_.” All those passages clearly show that, in Scripture, the bread of somebody is the bread of him who feeds upon it, not of him who makes, brings or provides it. In the passage of the Psalm we have quoted, _Bread of Angels_ may therefore easily be taken to mean the food of Angels, not incorporeal indeed, since these require no material food, but corporeal, that is to say of those rational animals we have discoursed of, who live in the air, and, from the subtlety of their bodies and their rationality, approximate so closely to immaterial Angels as to fall under the same denomination. 94. Ducor, quia cum animalia sint, et ideo generabilia et corruptibilia, egent cibo, ut restauretur substantia corporea, quæ per effluvia deperditur; vita enim sentientis non consistit nisi in motu partium corporearum quæ fluunt, ac refluunt, acquiruntur, ac deperduntur, ac iterum reparantur; quæ reparatio fit per substantias spirituosas, materiales tamen, attractas a vivente, tum per aeris inspirationem, tum per fermentationem cibi, per quam substantia illius spiritualizatur, ut rationatur doctissimus Ettmullerus, =Instit. Medic. Physiolog.=, c. 2.