Feasting And Fulfilment

Φάγονται πένητες καὶ ἐμπλησθήσονται, καὶ αἰνέσουσιν κύριον οἱ ἐκζητοῦντες αὐτόν... Οὐ πάντες, οὐδε γὰρ πάντες ὑπήκουσαν τῷ Εὐαγγελίῳ, ἀλλ' οἱ τὸν θεῖον εἰσδεξάμενοι πόθον· τούτους ἅτε δὴ πεινῶντας καὶ διψῶντας, κορεσθήσεσθαι ἔφῃ τῆς ἀθανάτου τροφῆς ἀπολαύσαντας· τὴν δὲ θείαν τροφὴν, καὶ τὴν πνευματικὴν ἴσμεν διδασκαλίαν, καὶ τὴν μυστικὴν καὶ ἀθάνατον εὐωχίαν, ἤν οἱ μεμυημένοι γινώσκουσι. Ζήσονται αἱ καρδίαι αὐτῶν εἰς αἰῶνα αἰῶνος. Καὶ γὰρ ἔτι φθαρτὸν περικείμενοι σῶμα, τῇ ἐλπίδι τῆς ἀναστάσεως ψυχαγωγούμενοι, προσμένουσι τὴν ζωὴν αἰώνιον. Θεοδώρητος Ἐπίσκοπος Κύρρος, Ἑρμηνεία εἰς Τους Ψαλμούς, Ψαλμός ΚΑ’ Source: Migne PG 80.1021b-c

The poor shall eat and be filled, and they shall praise the Lord who seek Him... 1 Yet not everyone, since not everyone is obedient to the Gospel, but only those who admit the Divine love in themselves. These as feasters and drinkers, he says, shall be filled abundantly with immortal food. And we understand the Divine food to be spiritual teaching, and those who are initiated know what the spiritual and immortal banquet is. 'Their hearts shall live forever.' 1 For even yet bound in the mortal body, with the hope of the resurrection leading their souls onwards, they await eternal life. Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Commentary on the Psalms, from Psalm 21 1 Ps 21.27