For those still concerned mainly with bodily forms of virtue, the Logos of God becomes hay and straw, sustaining the passible aspects of their soul and guiding it to the service of the virtues.
For those who have advanced to true contemplation of divine things, the Logos is bread, sustaining the intellective aspects of their souls and guiding them to godlike perfection. That is why we find the patriarchs on their journeys providing themselves with bread and their asses with fodder (Gen. 24:25; 42:25,27).
For the same reason, the Levite in the Book of Judges said to the old man who questioned him in the street of Gibeah: "There is bread for us and fodder for our asses, and for your servants there is no lack of anything" (Judges 19:19).
Second Century on Love
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