Patristic A.D. 407
“([Nic.] Theoph.) 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 that bread of life.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:47-51
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗