Eating.
Besides the common use of this word, it is employed symbolically for to 'consume, destroy:' they "eat up my people as they eat bread." Psalms 14:4; cf. Proverbs 30:14; Habakkuk 3:14; 2 Timothy 1:2. Also for receiving, digesting, and delighting in God's words: "Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts." Jeremiah 15:16. To eat together of the same bread or food is a token of friendship. Joshua 9:14; Psalms 41:9; Song of Solomon 5:1; John 13:18; and such an expression of intimacy is forbidden towards those walking disorderly. 1 Corinthians 5:11. It is used to express the satisfaction of doing the work that is before the soul: the Lord said, "I have meat to eat that ye know not of." John 4:32. Also to express appropriation to the eater of the death of Christ: "except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you." John 6:53. (In John 6:51, John 1:6 there is eating for reception, fagw; and in John 6:54, John 1:6, John 1:6, eating as a present thing for the maintenance of life, trwgw.) In the Lord's Supper the Christian eats that which is a symbol of the body of Christ, Matthew 26:26, and in eating he has communion with Christ's death. 1 Corinthians 10:16.