<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1443.tlg001.perseus-eng1" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="epistle" n="4"><div type="textpart" subtype="chapter" n="7"><div type="textpart" subtype="section" n="3"><p>I have no pleasure in the food of corruption or in the delights of this life, I desire the <q>bread of God,</q> which is the flesh of Jesus Christ, who was <q>of the seed of David,</q> and for drink I desire his blood, which is incorruptible love.<note type="footnote" resp="editor">There is here perhaps a play on the words: the word translated <q>love</q> was also used either as a synonym for the Eucharist, or, as some think, as the name of a religious meal originally connected with the Eucharist.</note> <pb xml:id="p.237"/></p></div></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>