"Oh my friend, my friend indeed, who at my need his life did spend."

"Nor could he have commanded anything more lovable, for this sacrament produces love and union.  It is characteristic of the greatest love to give itself as food [(Amoris enim maximi indicium est, seipsum dare in cibum)].  Had not the men of my tent exclaimed:  Who will feed us with his flesh to satisfy our hunger?"

     Albert the Great, Commentary on Luke 22:19, as trans. Liturgy of the hours, Second reading, Office of readings for the Feast of St. Albert the Great, 14 November.  Versions:

Albert the Great, Super Lucam 22:19, Opera omnia, ed. Jammy, vol. 10 (Lyon, 1651), p. 320, col. 1, second full paragraph; ed. Borgnet, vol. 19 (1894-1895), p. 673, col. 2.

Job 31:31 Douay-Rheims:  "If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?"

Job 31:31 Vulgate:  "si non dixerunt viri tabernaculi mei quis det de carnibus eius ut saturemur[?]"

Job 31:31 NETS:   "And if too my female attendants often said, 'Who might grant us to be filled with his flesh?'"

Job 31:31 LXX:  εἰ δὲ καὶ πολλάκις εἶπον αἱ θεράπαιναί μου Τίς ἂν δῴη ἡμῖν τῶν σαρκῶν αὐτοῦ πλησθῆναι;

Job 31:31 NRSV ("meaning of the Hebrew uncertain"):  "if those of my tent ever said, ‘O that we might be sated with his flesh!’"

Job 31:31 BHS:  אִם־לֹ֣א אָ֭מְרוּ מְתֵ֣י אָהֳלִ֑י מִֽי־יִתֵּ֥ן מִ֝בְּשָׂרֹ֗ו לֹ֣א נִשְׂבָּֽע