Patristic A.D. 735
“And to shew the wide interval between the shadow and the light, the type and the reality, He adds, Not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:55-59
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗