Bible Dictionary: Bread: Figurative

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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

Subtopics

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