John 6:48 (WEB)
I am the bread of life.
Catechism · 1
“For this reason the specifically Christian sense of this fourth petition concerns the Bread of Life: the Word of God accepted in faith, the Body of Christ received in the Eucharist.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 6:26-58.
Fathers and councils · 17
John Damascene
“We were therefore given a birth by water and Spirit: I mean, by the holy baptism: and the food is the very bread of life, our Lord Jesus Christ, Who came down from heaven.” — editor's note: St. John vi. 48.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“And He by His living Word quickeneth all men, and gives Him to be food and life to the saints; as the Lord declares, ‘I am the bread of life.’” — editor's note: John vi. 48.
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Augustine of Hippo
“After this address, too, his narrative is again borne on to one subject after another, in a sublime strain.” — editor's note: John vi. 22–72.
Read the whole comment“John, on the other hand, has said nothing about the body and blood of the Lord in this context; but he plainly certifies that the Lord spake to that effect on another occasion, with much greater fulness than here.” — editor's note: John vi. 32–64.
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John Chrysostom
“He calleth Himself, ( ver. 48 ,) “the bread of life,” because He maintaineth our life both which is and which is to be, and saith, “Whosoever shall eat of this bread shall live for ever.”” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
Our Lord wishes to reveal what He is; Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on Me, hath everlasting life. As if He said; He that believeth on Me hath Me: but what is it to have Me? It is to have eternal…
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The multitude being urgent for bodily food, and reminding Him of that which was given to their fathers, He tells them that the manna was only a type of that spiritual food which was now to be tasted in reality, I am…
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He calls Himself the bread of life, because He constitutes one life, both present, and to come.
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And because they had taunted Him with the manna, He adds, Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. Your fathers they are, for ye are like them; murmuring sons of murmuring fathers. For in nothing…
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The addition, In the wilderness, is not put in without meaning, but to remind them how short a time the manna lasted; only till the entrance into the land of promise. And because the bread which Christ gave seemed…
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This was the bread the manna typified, this was the bread the altar typified. Both the one and the other were sacraments, differing in symbol, alike in the thing signified. Hear the Apostle, They did all eat the same…
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He then gives them a strong reason for believing that they were given for higher privileges than their fathers. Their fathers eat manna and were dead; whereas of this bread He says, that a man may eat thereof, and…
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But are we, who eat the bread that cometh down from heaven, relieved from death? From visible and carnal death, the death of the body, we are not: we shall die, even as they died. But from spiritual death which their…
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Therefore I say, He that eateth this bread, dieth not: I am the living bread which came down from heaven.
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By becoming incarnate, He was not then first man, and afterwards assumed Divinity, as Nestorius fables.
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was The manna too came down from heaven; but the manna was shadow, this is substance.
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But men must be quickened by my life: If any man eat of this bread, he shall live, not only now by faith and righteousness, but for ever.
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 6:47–51 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 6:47–51 (4) (Catena Aurea).