Pope Shenouda III
The Holy Bible is food for our spirit. We are nourished by it and have life...
And as the Lord said in Deuteronomy (8:3), and was again repeated by the Lord Jesus Christ: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God” (Mt 4:4). Bread is food for the body and man is not just a body but he has a spirit, and the spirit is nourished by God’s words which are found in His Holy Bible.
In the Holy Bible, we have our daily bread because we live “.. by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God .” It is the bread of life and the nourishment of the spirit.
It is probably part of what is meant by the phrase: “Give us this day our daily bread.”
The man of God rejoices in the Bible: “... But his delight is in the law of the Lord,” (Ps 1:2) and he meditates on it day and night. The word “delight” indicates that God’s commandments are not a burden and not an obligation, but are the cause of one’s delight...
