Patristic A.D. 735
“And that this might not seem addressed to them alone, He declares universally, Whoso eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, hath eternal life.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:52-54
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗