bread
object · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
his body · his bread
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
The prophetic figure of bread used for Christ's body, connected to the wood of the cross.
This tree Jeremiah too suggests to you, preaching to the Jews who would say, "Come, let us cast wood upon his bread" — surely upon his body.
Not understanding that this was an old figure of the body of Christ, who says through Jeremiah, "Against me they have devised a device, saying, Come, let us cast wood upon his bread" — namely the cross upon his body.
Economics
A basic food used to show why refusal to work or trade is morally suspect.
For no one persuades himself that man could live without bread;