Wisdom 16:20
Instead of which things thou didst feed thy people with the food of angels, and gavest them bread from heaven prepared without labour; having in it all that is delicious, and the sweetness of every taste.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Pro quibus angelorum esca nutrivisti populum tuum, et paratum panem de cælo præstitisti illis sine labore, omne delectamentum in se habentem, et omnis saporis suavitatem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀνθ᾽ ὧν ἀγγέλων τροφὴν ἐψώμισας τὸν λαόν σου, καὶ ἕτοιμον ἄρτον αὐτοῖς ἀπ᾽ οὐρανοῦ ἔπεμψας ἀκοπιάτως, πᾶσαν ἡδονὴν ἰσχύοντα καὶ πρὸς πᾶσαν ἁρμόνιον γεῦσιν.
Haydock's commentary
Angels. See Exodus xvi. (Worthington)
If angels stood in need of food, they could have nothing more delicious. So water is styled honey, to denote its excellence, Psalm lxxvii. 25., Leviticus xx. 24., and Joel iii. 18.
Taste. These expressions are figurative. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.