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Deuteronomy 8:3

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Deuteronomy 8:3 (WEB)

He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the LORD’s mouth.

Catechism · 2

The Sacrament of the Eucharist

  • §1334Article 3 · The Sacrament of the EucharistRead at vatican.va

    “…that liberated them from Egypt; the remembrance of the manna in the desert will always recall to Israel that it lives by the bread of the Word of God;” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Deut 8:3.

The Seven Petitions

  • §2835Article 3 · The Seven PetitionsRead at vatican.va

    “This petition, with the responsibility it involves, also applies to another hunger from which men are perishing: "Man does not live by bread alone, but . . . by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God,"” — Catechism footnote: Deut 8:3; Mt 4:4.

Fathers and councils · 15

Irenaeus of Lyons

John Cassian

  • “…nor shalt thou take a wife of his daughters to thy son; for they shall seduce your hearts to depart from your God, and to follow their gods and serve them.”” — editor's note: Deut. viii. 3; Exod. xxxiv. 16: cf. 1 Kings xi. 2.

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Origen

  • “…of that which here has been already predicted, viz., that “man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which proceedeth from the mouth of God.”” — editor's note: Deut. viii. 3.

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Ambrose of Milan

John Chrysostom

Jerome

  • “For forty days and forty nights Moses lived by the intimate converse which he had with God, thus proving in his own case the complete truth of the saying, “man doth not live by bread only but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord.”” — editor's note: Deut. viii. 3.

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Tertullian

  • “Through them, to wit, had “the heart of the People been made thick, lest they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with a heart” obstructed by the “fats” of which He had expressly forbidden the eating, teaching man not to be studious of the stomach.” — editor's note: See Deut. viii. 3; Matt. iv. 4; Luke iv. 4.

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  • “For even so early was the principle consecrated: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”” — editor's note: Deut. viii. 3; Matt. iv. 4.

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Leo the Great

  • “Therefore, dearly-beloved, seeing that, as we are taught by our Redeemer’s precept, “man lives not in bread alone, but in every word of God,” and it is right that Christian people, whatever the amount of their abstinence, should rather desire to satisfy themselves with the “Word of God” than with…” — editor's note: Ib. iv. 4, quoted from Deut. viii. 3.

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Clement of Alexandria

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  • Matthew 4:4 takes up the words of Deuteronomy 8:3 (11 words in common).

  • Luke 19:21 takes up the words of Deuteronomy 8:3 (8 words in common).

  • 2 Corinthians 11:4 takes up the words of Deuteronomy 8:3 (8 words in common).

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