Eating-the-word imagery uses food, scrolls, milk, meat, and eating language to picture taking Gods word inward, receiving revelation, growing in maturity, and bearing the burden of prophetic testimony.
Eating-the-word imagery uses food, scrolls, milk, meat, and eating language to picture taking Gods word inward, receiving revelation, growing in maturity, and bearing the burden of prophetic testimony.
A revelation-as-food motif in which divine speech is ingested, tasted, digested, or distributed as nourishment, thereby emphasizing inward appropriation, maturity, obedience, proclamation, and the sweetness or bitterness of revealed truth.
These examples show how Eating the Word, Scroll, and Inward Assimilation Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD
Gods word is set above ordinary bread as true life-sustenance.
more than my necessary food
Job values Gods words above daily food.
thy words were found, and I did eat them
Jeremiah pictures reception of Gods words as eating.
eat that I give thee
The prophet is commanded to receive the scroll inwardly.
eat this roll
Eating the scroll prepares Ezekiel to speak Gods words.
it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness
The received word is sweet even when the mission is hard.
by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God
Jesus applies Deuteronomys food-word lesson in temptation.
Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man
Jesus uses shocking eating language for participation in his life-giving work.
milk... strong meat
Milk and meat picture stages of doctrinal maturity.
take it, and eat it up
John eats the little book, receiving both sweetness and bitterness.
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