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Isaiah 55:2
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfies not? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
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1 Corinthians 10:17
For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
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2 Corinthians 9:10
Now he that ministers seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
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The Figurative Language of Scripture.
... The dogma of the Romish church, which teaches that the consecrated bread and wine
are literally converted into the ... 2.) In ascertaining figurative language, the ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxxv the figurative language.htm

Give us Today Our Needful Bread
... And while we are considering the needful bread and the tree of life and the wisdom
of ... and to observe that this may perhaps simply be told in a figurative sense ...
//christianbookshelf.org/origen/origen on prayer/chapter xvii give us today.htm

Christ in the Synagogue at Capernaum. (John, vi. )
... To make the sense of his figurative expressions perfectly clear, he changed the
figure again to the "bread from heaven;" as the living Father hath sent me, and ...
/.../section 178 christ in the.htm

Whether a Suitable Cause Can be Assigned for the Ceremonies which ...
... The figurative cause is that the bread signifies Christ Who is the "living
bread" (Jn.6:41, 51). He was indeed an ear of corn, as ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether a suitable cause can.htm

Wyclif -- Christ's Real Body not in the Eucharist
... Wherein was Christ a very vine, or wherein was the bread Christ's body,
in figurative speech, which is hidden to the understanding? ...
/.../various/the worlds great sermons volume i/wyclif christs real body.htm

The Lord's Supper --Continued.
... itself, or in the context, that clearly indicates that it is meant to be figurative.". ...
In Matthew 26:26-28, we read, "Jesus took bread and blessed it and brake ...
/.../chapter xiv the lords suppercontinued.htm

Meditation viii. Institution of the Holy Eucharist.
... this custom (which had hitherto been no more than a symbolical and figurative rite)
to the ... Then he blessed the bread and also the oil, to the best of my belief ...
/.../meditation viii institution of the.htm

Eucharistic Doctrine.
... that it is "distributed to our members." Thus the Bread broken is a ... sufferings is
emphatically and repeatedly contrasted with the figurative representation of ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/chapter vii eucharistic doctrine.htm

Matthew xxvi. 45, 46
... then, instead of explaining his language, he made it more and more figurative; more
likely ... John; there he first calls himself the Bread of Life, and says, that ...
/.../arnold/the christian life/lecture xxxv matthew xxvi 45.htm

The Same Word Does not Always Signify the Same Thing.
... And when it is shown to be figurative, the words in which it is expressed ... in a bad
sense, "The serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty." [1886] Bread is used ...
/.../on christian doctrine in four books /chapter 25 the same word does.htm

Resources
What did Jesus mean when He said, “This is my body, broken for you”? | GotQuestions.org

What did Jesus mean when He said we must eat His flesh and drink His blood? | GotQuestions.org

Why is the real presence of Christ in the Lord's Supper such a controversial issue? | GotQuestions.org

Bread: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Bread

Bread by Idolaters

Bread in Times of Scarcity, Sold by Weight

Bread of Christ

Bread was Baked in Ovens

Bread was Baked: On Coals of Fire

Bread was Baked: On Hearths

Bread was Formed Into: Cakes

Bread was Formed Into: Loaves

Bread was Formed Into: Wafers

Bread was Kneaded

Bread with Water, the Food of Prisons

Bread: (Eating Without Scarceness) of Plenty

Bread: (Fulness of) of Abundance

Bread: (Of Adversity) Heavy Affliction

Bread: (Of Deceit) Unlawful Gain

Bread: (Of Idleness) Sloth

Bread: (Of Tears) Sorrow

Bread: (Of Wickedness) Oppression

Bread: (Partaking of) Communion of Saints

Bread: (Seeking of Begging) Extreme Poverty

Bread: (Want of) Extreme Poverty

Bread: (When Broken) the Death of Christ

Bread: Barley

Bread: Broken for Use

Bread: Called the Staff of Life

Bread: Christ

Bread: Corn Ground for Making

Bread: Crumb of, Used to Wipe the Fingers, Thrown Under the Table

Bread: Figurative

Bread: First Fruit of, offered to God

Bread: Given by God

Bread: How Prepared in Pans

Bread: How Prepared: Baked in Ovens

Bread: How Prepared: Cakes

Bread: How Prepared: Cracknels

Bread: How Prepared: Honey

Bread: How Prepared: Kneaded

Bread: How Prepared: Made Into Loaves

Bread: How Prepared: Mixed With Oil

Bread: How Prepared: On Coals

Bread: How Prepared: On Coals of Dung

Bread: How Prepared: On Hearths

Bread: How Prepared: Wafers

Bread: Kept in Baskets

Bread: Kinds of Bread of Affliction

Bread: Kinds of Leavened (Made With Yeast)

Bread: Kinds of Unleavened (Made Without Yeast)

Bread: Made by Men

Bread: Made by Women

Bread: Made of Barley

Bread: Made of Beans, Millet

Bread: Made of Manna (In the Wilderness)

Bread: Made of Wheat

Bread: Made of Wheat Flour

Bread: Making of, a Trade

Bread: Manna

Bread: Meal

Bread: Multitudes Miraculously Fed by Christ With

Bread: Nutritious and Strengthening

Bread: Offered With Sacrifices

Bread: Often Given As a Present

Bread: Often Put for the Whole Substance of Man

Bread: Ordinary, Called Common Bread

Bread: Placed on Table of Shew Bread

Bread: Plenty of, Promised to the Obedient

Bread: Publicly Sold

Bread: Sacred, Called Hallowed Bread

Bread: Sacrificed

Bread: Scarceness of, Sent As a Punishment

Bread: Served Round After Funerals

Bread: Sometimes Unleavened

Bread: Symbolical of the Body of Christ

Bread: The Principal Food Used by the Ancients

Bread: Traffic In

Bread: Troughs Used for Kneading

Bread: Usually Leavened

Bread: when Old, Dry and Mouldy

Bread: Yielded by the Earth

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