Question XVII. (marg.) Did Joshua make use of food and drink on the mountain?

In the first six days, in which Moses and Joshua halted on the middle ledge of the mountain, Abulensis (q. 19) teaches [that] both made use of food and drink — if, however, those days were not of the number of the forty, as I said before [they were] not (q. 16). But in the forty days themselves, [that] Moses took absolutely nothing of food or of drink, Deuteronomy ch. 9 most clearly testifies. But of Joshua, the same Abulensis (q. 20) hands down [that] in those days he likewise ate and drank. Yet I do not think this [necessary]. For if, as has hitherto been plain, he always clung to Moses, and with him penetrated the brow of the mountain and the most sacred dwelling of the cloud, why should we not think [that] he also fasted with him? For [the fact] that this is recorded of Moses, [and] not of Joshua himself, we already saw above (q. 15) is no obstacle in the ascents of that mountain. Yet because [Joshua] was not himself to receive the tables with his own hands, and because he was younger in age — for whom, toward the future contests of wars, strength and bodily vigor were more necessary — let us therefore grant [that] he was perhaps wont to eat and drink.