John Gill's Exposition on John 6:58

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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This is that bread which came down from heaven, etc.] That true bread, the bread of God, the bread of life, living bread; meaning himself, as in (<430632>John 6:32,33,35,48,50,51); not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: this is bread of a quite different nature from that; that was only typical bread, this true; that was the bread of angels, but this is the bread of God; that came but from the air, this from the third heaven; that men ate of, and died; but whoever eats of this, lives for ever; (see <430649>John 6:49); as follows: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever; (see Gill on “<430651>John 6:51”).

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