John 6:55

“For my flesh is meat indeed, etc.] Not in a corporeal, but in a spiritual sense; and the same is said of his blood: and my blood is drink indeed, etc. that is, they are both “truly” meat and drink, as the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions render it; or are “true” meat and drink, as the Arabic version: in opposition to what was typical meat and drink; as the manna in the wilderness, the water out of the rock, the flesh and wine at the passover, the meat and drink offerings under the law, or any other meats and drinks under that dispensation; and which, though not when Christ said these words, yet now are abolished, being unprofitable, and not to be fed upon. Moreover, these phrases…”

“In these verses Jesus repeats what he had in substance said before. Except ye eat the flesh ... - He did not mean that this should be understood literally, for it was never done, and it is absurd to suppose that it was intended to be so understood. Nothing can possibly be more absurd than to suppose that when he instituted the Supper, and gave the bread and wine to his disciples, they literally ate his flesh and drank his blood. Who can believe this? There he stood, a living man - his body yet alive, his blood flowing in his veins; and how can it be believed that this body was eaten and this blood drunk? Yet this absurdity must be held by those who hold that the bread and wine at the…”

“Meat - drink indeed - With which the soul of a believer is as truly fed, as his body with meat and drink. John 6:57”

“meat: Joh 6:32, Joh 1:9, Joh 1:47, Joh 8:31, Joh 8:36, Joh 15:1; Psa 4:7; Heb 8:2; Jo1 5:20 John 6:56”