Patristic A.D. 430
“(Tr. xxvi. 15) As if He said, The sense in which that bread is eaten, and the mode of eating it, ye know not; but, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in you.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:52-54
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗