But you know that the belch of the food that has been previously swallowed yields the fragrance. For a belch is nothing other than the going forth of the wind from the mouth revealing the quality of that which has previously been swallowed. If someone should eat an apple, he has the belch which bears the quality and odor of an apple. Therefore whenever a holy man eats the \u201cbread of life\u201d and the flesh of Jesus, which is true food and the fruits \u201cof the tree of life,\u201d and drinks the wine which is reaped from \u201cthe true vine,\u201d he has a belch which corresponds to the foods he has previously swallowed.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2013from Didymus the Blind\u2019s explanation of Psalm 44:2 (\u201cMy heart belched forth a good word\u201d) in his\u00a0Commentary on the Psalms<\/em> (late fourth century)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" But you know that the belch of the food that has been previously swallowed yields the fragrance. For a belch is nothing other than the going forth of the wind from the mouth revealing the quality of that which has previously been swallowed. If someone should eat an apple, he has the belch which bears […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[72,23,71],"class_list":["post-5890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mackerel-snapping","tag-in-the-flesh","tag-lol","tag-words-words-words"],"yoast_head":"\n