Bible Dictionary: Manna: Figurative

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John 6:48-51
I am that bread of life.
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1 Corinthians 10:3
And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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Revelation 2:17
He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said to the churches; To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knows saving he that receives it.
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Christ in the Synagogue at Capernaum. (John, vi. )
... Father, except through him; and describes himself as the true manna from heaven ... To
make the sense of his figurative expressions perfectly clear, he changed the ...
/.../section 178 christ in the.htm

Typology
... Charity is not a figurative precept. ... languishing in Egypt, He brought them out with
all these great signs in their favour; that He fed them with manna in the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/pascal/pensees/section x typology.htm

Whether Sufficient Reason Can be Assigned for the Ceremonies ...
... Reply to Objection 6: Both literal and figurative reasons may be assigned for the
things ... ark of the testament in which was a golden pot that had manna, and the ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether sufficient reason can be.htm

The Jew Objects, Why is He Said to have Eaten, if He be God? ...
... that which mortals use"(for, concerning the sustenance of manna which supported ... about
anything, if we are acquainted even slightly with figurative modes of ...
/.../chapter lvii the jew objects why.htm

Institutions of Jesus.
... which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are ... disciples,
"I am your nourishment""a phrase which, turned in figurative style, became ...
/.../renan/the life of jesus/chapter xviii institutions of jesus.htm

John xix. 16-18
... of royalty from the Gentiles, and in the wilderness after the manna remembered the ...
is not put without a purpose; but some say that a figurative assertion is ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of st john and hebrews/homily lxxxv john xix 16-18.htm

Whether There Can be any Suitable Cause for the Sacraments of the ...
... of the lamb; and a basket of bread, in memory of the manna vouchsafed to ... The figurative
reason of these things was that those who are to be consecrated to the ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether there can be any 2.htm

Letter Xlvi. Paula and Eustochium to Marcella.
... be punished; if the temple was overthrown, it was that its figurative sacrifices
might ... cherubim, the mercy-seat, the ark of the covenant, the manna, Aaron's rod ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter xlvi paula and eustochium.htm

The Name Children Does not Imply Instruction in Elementary ...
... regard the Lord as preserving consistency in the use of figurative speech, when ... the
Father of all that are generated and regenerated,"as manna, the celestial ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter vi the name children does.htm

John 7:37-38. "Let any Man Come. "
... The very familiarity of the manna makes us think little of it, just as ... the Spirit,
which they that believe on Him should receive." Figurative, undoubtedly, are ...
/.../chapter vii john 7 37-38 let.htm

Subtopics

Manna

Manna: A Golden Pot of, Laid up in the Holiest for a Memorial

Manna: An Omer of, Gathered for Each Person

Manna: Blessedness Given to Saints

Manna: Called: Angel's Food

Manna: Called: Bread from Heaven

Manna: Called: Bread of Heaven

Manna: Called: Corn of Heaven

Manna: Called: God's Manna

Manna: Called: Spiritual Meat

Manna: Ceased when Israel Entered Canaan