Wisdom as Christ through wine bread prudence and merchandise
Eustathius opens his commentary on Proverbs by identifying the wine and bread as representations of Christ's bodily members, and by naming Christ as Wisdom whose visible image is prudence and whose merchandise is to be embraced above all.
Through wine and bread Proverbs proclaims the representations of Christ's bodily members.
It calls Christ Wisdom, depicting her visible image as visible prudence and indicating that her merchandise is to be embraced above all things.
No form of wickedness or craftiness that opposes her has any power.
For it cries out with good report, presenting to those who love her a clear sign of recognition: she is well-known to all, and every precious thing is not worthy of her.
Greek
In Proverbia (fragmenta) 75 ∆ιὰ τοῦ οἴνου καὶ τοῦ ἄρτου τὰ ἀντίτυπα τῶν σωματικῶν τοῦ Χριστοῦ κηρύττει μελῶν. 76 Τὸν Χριστὸν λέγει Σοφίαν, τὴν αἰσθητὴν αὐτῆς εἰκόνα, διαγράφων τὴν ὁρατὴν φρόνησιν τήν τε ἐμπορίαν αὐτῆς <πρὸ> πάντων ἀσπαστέαν σημαίνων· καὶ οὐδὲν αὐτῇ κακίας εἶδος ἢ πανουργίας ἀντιτασσόμενον ἰσχύει· τοῖς γὰρ ἐρῶσιν αὐτῆς πρόδηλον γνώρισμα παριστῶν, ἐκβοᾷ μετ' εὐφημίας· εὔγνωστός ἐστι πᾶσι, καὶ πᾶν δὲ τίμιον οὐκ ἄξιον αὐτῆς.