Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven{Greek and Hebrew use the same word for "heaven", "the heavens", "the sky", and "the air".} to eat.'"
      4. Christ, having thus spoken of himself as the  bread of life,  and of faith as  the work of God,  comes more particularly to show  what of himself  is this bread, namely, his flesh, and that to believe is to eat of that,  John 6:51-58, where he still prosecutes the metaphor of food. Observe, here, the  preparation  of this food:  The bread that I will give is my flesh  (; John 6:51),  the flesh of the Son of man and his blood,  John 6:53.  His flesh is meat indeed, and his blood is drink indeed,  ; John 6:55. Observe, also, the  participation  of this food: We must  eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood  (John 6:53); and again (John 6:54),  Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood;  and the same words (; John 6:56-57), he that  eateth me.  This is certainly a parable or figurative discourse, wherein the actings of the soul upon things spiritual and divine are represented by bodily actions about things sensible, which made the truths of Christ more intelligible to some, and less so to others,  Mark 4:11-12. Now,