Chapter XXVIII.
Therefore, the Son of God, as it is said, assumed the entire human being from the Virgin, and will raise up the entire and intact person, that is, the soul and body, fulfilling His own statement in which He says: Everything that the Father has given me, I will not lose any of it; but I will raise it up on the last day (John 6:39): we understand that the Lord Christ said this both of Himself and of His members, who speaks in all the holy books with His own mouth and with the mouths of His members. Therefore, the body cries out to God, and the head in the body, and the body in the head, that is, the Church in Christ, and Christ in the Church; because in no way are the members separate from the head, nor is the head separated from the members. Then, therefore, his adversaries, who tormented and shouted: Take him away, take him away, crucify him (John 19:15), will see him. Then the prophecy of the angels will be fulfilled, who said to the astonished apostles: Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? He will come, just as you saw him going into heaven (Acts 1:11). And indeed, this is to be investigated, whether after the resurrection we will eat and drink in the kingdom of heaven, just as the Lord did after the resurrection in order to show his true body, and like Lazarus and others whom he raised. Therefore, the Lord ate in order to show the reality of his body, and to confirm the doubting apostles who thought he was a spirit or a phantom: he ate honeycomb to fulfill the prophecy which speaks in his person saying, 'I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; eat, friends, and be intoxicated, O neighbors' (Song of Solomon 5:1). Therefore, in order to demonstrate this prophecy and the true body after the resurrection, the Lord ate and drank, as the blessed Apostle Peter affirms, saying: 'But he was made manifest to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead' (Acts 10:40-41). Therefore, after the resurrection, there will be the food of the Word, the vision of God, and His praises and hallelujahs, as well as those things which eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man, which God has prepared for those who love him (1 Corinthians 2:9). Therefore, after the resurrection, we do not need to eat or drink, nor do incorruptible and immortal bodies need to be sustained by earthly nourishment; otherwise, where there is food, diseases and other afflictions that we endure in this world would also follow.