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Augustine of Hippo — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:47-51

Patristic A.D. 430
Augustine of Hippo · A.D. 354–430
“(Tr. xxvi. s. 12) 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 spiritual meat. (1 Cor. 10)”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:47-51 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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