Exodus 16:15 (WEB)
When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.
Fathers and councils · 6
Augustine of Hippo
“Let him still rejoice and say, “What is this?”” — editor's note: Ex. xvi. 15. This is one of the alternative translations put against “it is manna” in the margin of the authorized version. It is the literal significance of…
Read the whole comment“…by night in the brightness of fire; and determineth that thus it is that “the heavens dropped from the face of God,” for manna He rained upon His people: that the same thing also is that which followeth, “Mount Sina from the face of the God of Israel,” “with voluntary rain severing God to Thine inheritance”…” — editor's note: Exod. xvi. 15.
Read the whole comment“…Israel whom their own God led from Egypt through the Red Sea, wherein He overwhelmed their pursuing foes; whom He led out into the wilderness, fed with manna, never took His rod from correcting them, never deprived them of the blessings of His mercy; ought they to desert their own God, when the heathen have come unto…” — editor's note: Exod. xvi. 13–35.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“He indeed could neither rain bread from heaven by prayer, to nourish an escaped people in the wilderness, nor supply fountains of food without cost from the depth of vessels which are filled by being emptied, and so,…” — editor's note: Exod. xvi. 15.
Read the whole comment“The wilderness shall be tamed for thee, and the Sea divided; Pharaoh shall be drowned; bread shall be rained down: the rock shall become a fountain; Amalek shall be conquered, not with arms alone, but with the hostile hand of the righteous forming both prayers and the…” — editor's note: Ib. xvi. 15.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
“(Exod. 16:15, Numb.” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 11
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 4:1–4 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Confessions I.6.
Cited together in Confessions I.6.
Cited together in Confessions I.6.
Cited together in Confessions I.6.
Cited together in Confessions I.6.
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 4:1–4 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 4:1–4 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 4:1–4 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 4:1–4 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Confessions I.6.
