Annotation XXXVII

”Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” — Matthew 6:34

On bodily human food.

Augustine, in the second book On the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount, expounding this, thought that by the name of “trouble” [malice] Christ wished to signify the food and drink which men need — because they are penal to us, pertaining to this frailty and mortality which by sinning we have deserved. This same opinion he retracts in the first book of the Retractations, [chapter] 19, as incautiously said, since he did not take heed that food had been given to the first men too in paradise, before they deserved, by sinning, this penalty of death.