John 6:49 (WEB)
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died.
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 · 19
Augustine of Hippo
“After forgetfulness, let remembrance come, let bread be eaten from heaven, that we may live; not manna, as they did eat, and died; that bread, of which it is said, “Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness.”” — editor's note: John vi. 49.
Read the whole comment“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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Athanasius of Alexandria
“This is the bread which came down from heaven, that a man should eat thereof, and not die.’” — editor's note: Ib. 48–51.
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John Chrysostom
“Ver.” — the author cites it
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Basil the Great
“The manna is a type of the living bread that came down from heaven; and the serpent on the standard, of the passion of salvation accomplished by means of the cross, wherefore they who even looked thereon were preserved.” — editor's note: John vi. 49, 51.
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Tertullian
“Now, just before (the passage in hand), He had declared His flesh to be “the bread which cometh down from heaven,” impressing on (His hearers) constantly under the figure of necessary food the memory of their forefathers, who had preferred the bread and flesh of Egypt to their divine calling.” — editor's note: John vi. 31, 49, 58.
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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 · 7
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).
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 37.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 37.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 37.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 37.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 37.