From Nave’s Topical Bible
Eating
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 10Passages listed
- 7Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- The host acting as waiterGenesis 18:8
- Favored guests served a double portionGenesis 43:34
- Table used inJudges 1:7
- Sitting at tableExodus 32:6
- Reclining on couchesAmos 6:4Amos 6:7Luke 7:37Luke 7:38John 13:25
- Ablutions beforeMatthew 15:2
- See Feasts
- See Food
- See Gluttony
The passages, in Bible order (10)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 10 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 18:8
Then Abraham brought curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and he set them before the men and stood by them under the tree as they ate.
Commentary on Genesis 18:82 voices
But thou wilt not be able to stand in the freedom of spiritual beings until thou hast cast away entirely the bondage of carnal beings, for when thou hast cast away this bondage like a spiritual being and freeman thou mayest eat of every thing …
Philoxenus of Mabbug· 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 11 -- On Abstinence, 523Patristic
And he took butter and milk,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Genesis 43:34
When the portions were served to them from Joseph’s table, Benjamin’s portion was five times larger than any of the others. So they feasted and drank freely with Joseph.
Commentary on Genesis 43:342 voices
Joseph, as I was saying, was a holy man who conquered cruelty with true piety; who was sold into Egypt not by chance but that he might supply Egypt with food and his own brothers too, who had sold him. That Joseph invited his brothers to dine. But just listen to what happened: "And he drank, and became merry at noon." Is that true, and is it literally possible that a holy man became drunk? Noah also was inebriated but had been really inebriated. Joseph had been intoxicated; Noah also was intoxicated in his own house.
Jerome· HOMILIES ON the Psalms 13, 420Patristic
And he took and sent messes unto there from before him,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Exodus 32:6
So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.
Commentary on Exodus 32:61 voice
But he who has engulfed and plunged himself in such wallowing places, falls also into the snare of unbelief; for the people sat down to eat and to drink, and required that gods should be made for them. Hereby the Lord teaches us that he who gives up his soul to these two kinds of vices, is stript of the garment, not of a woollen vest, but of living virtue; that clothing which is not temporal but eternal.
Ambrose of Milan· Letter 58.16, 397Patristic
- Judges 1:7
Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
Commentary on Judges 1:72 voices
And Adonibezek said,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Threescore and ten kings - We may infer from this number of conquered kings, that the intestine wars of the Canaanites were among the causes which, under Gods Providence, weakened their resistance to the Israelites. Adoni-Bezeks cruelty to the subject kings was the cause of his receiving (compare the marginal references) this chastisement. The loss of the thumb would make a man unfit to handle a sword or a bow; the loss of his big toe would impede his speed.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Amos 6:4
You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.
Commentary on Amos 6:42 voices
That lie upon beds of ivory,.... That were made of it, or inlaid with it, or covered with it, as the Targum; nor was it improbable that these were made wholly of ivory, for such beds we read of: Timaeus says (r), the Agrigentines had beds entirely made of ivory; and Horace (s) also speaks of such beds: and if any credit can be given to the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem on Gen 50:1. Joseph made his father Jacob to lie on a bed of ivory.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
(Vers. 2 seqq.) Go through Chalane, and see: and from there go to great Emath, and descend to Geth of the Philistines: to the best of their kingdoms, if their boundary is wider than your boundary. You who are separated on the day of evil, and approach the throne of wickedness.
Jerome· Commentary on Amos, 420Patristic
- Amos 6:7
Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.
Commentary on Amos 6:71 voice
(Vers. 7 seqq.) Therefore now they will migrate to the head of the transmigrants, and the faction of the revelers will be removed.
Jerome· Commentary on Amos, 420Patristic
- Matthew 15:2
“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”
Commentary on Matthew 15:21 voice
Of what kind these traditions were, Mark shows when he says, The Pharisees and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not. (Mark 7:3.) Here then also they find fault with the disciples, saying, For they wash not their hands when they eat bread. Or the Pharisees found fault with the Lord's disciples, not concerning that washing which we do from ordinary habit, and of necessity, but of that superfluous washing which was invented by the tradition of the elders.
Remigius of Rheims· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 533Patristic
- Luke 7:37
When a sinful woman from that town learned that Jesus was dining there, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume.
Commentary on Luke 7:371 voice
Now in this place many seem to be perplexed with the question, whether the Evangelists do not appear to have differed concerning the faith. Matthew has introduced this woman as pouring ointment upon the head of Christ, and was therefore unwilling to call her a sinner, for the sinner, according to Luke, poured ointment upon the feet of Christ. She cannot then be the same, lest the Evangelists should seem to be at variance with one another.
Ambrose of Milan· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 397Patristic
- Luke 7:38
As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them with the perfume.
Commentary on Luke 7:382 voices
(ubi sup.) The woman kisses the feet which she has wiped. This also we fully do when we ardently love those whom we maintain by our bounty. By the feet also may be understood the mystery itself of the Incarnation. We then kiss the feet of the Redeemer when we love with our whole heart the mystery of the Incarnation. We anoint the feet with ointment, when we proclaim the power of His humanity with the good tidings of holy eloquence.
Gregory the Dialogist· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 604Patristic
Now in this place many seem to be perplexed with the question, whether the Evangelists do not appear to have differed concerning the faith. Matthew has introduced this woman as pouring ointment upon the head of Christ, and was therefore unwilling to call her a sinner, for the sinner, according to Luke, poured ointment upon the feet of Christ. She cannot then be the same, lest the Evangelists should seem to be at variance with one another.
Ambrose of Milan· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 397Patristic
- John 13:25
Leaning back against Jesus, he asked, “Lord, who is it?”
Commentary on John 13:252 voices
Notice again how effectually the very wise Evangelist spurs us on to a desire to live, as far as possible, in the manner most accordant with reason, and to train up the keenness of our intellectual powers so as to be able, and that with perfect ease, to act in obedience to the Divine intentions, and to endeavour, as far as in us lies, to thoroughly fulfil the conditions of the vision of God.
Cyril of Alexandria· Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 9, 444Patristic
He then lying on Jesus' breast,.... Being on the couch just before Jesus, with his back to him, he bends backwards, and falling on Jesus' breast, whispers in his ear: and saith unto him, Lord, who is it? using his interest in Christ, and making thus free with him, in compliance with Peter's request; and was no doubt desirous himself of knowing who the person was.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed