Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 24:43

43 And he took it, and did eat before them.

Believed not for Ioy, yet if they had not now believed, they doubtless would not have rejoyced, but their Faith was the cause of their Joy; yet the Excess of their Joy was the hinderance of their Faith, so dangerous are the excessive motions of our Affections. Christ here gives them another Evidence of the truth of his Body, he did Eat with them, (tho very ordinary Country Diet a piece of broiled Fish, and a piece of an Honey-comb) such a Meal as we read of that he had at the Lake of Tiberias, Iohn 21.9. He did not Eat to uphold, but only to testify his Life. Thus when he had raised the Daughter of Iairus, Ch. 8.55. he bid them give her something to Eat; and for this end Lazarus sate at Meat with the rest, Iohn 12.2. and Peter proves the Resurrection of Christ from their Eating and Drinking with him, Acts 10.41. Let not profane Wits seek Knots in Bulrushes, inquiring what became of this Meat? &c. Let them first tell us what became of the Meat the Angels did Eat with Abraham, Gen. 18.8. and learn to believe, that it was easie with the Power of God to Annihilate again that Meat, which was not necessary for the fustentation the body ofChrist, now freed from all the cravings of Natural Appetite, tho he did Eat it to satisfy them, that he was truly risen from the Dead.