manna
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the bread of angels · Bread of angels · heavenly manna
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
The heavenly food by which the Creator sustained Israel for forty years, contrasted with Christ's feeding of the five thousand.
Or if it is not the same majesty, then he is already lesser than the Creator, who not in one day, but in forty years, nor out of the inferior matters of bread and fish, but out of heavenly manna, nor about five, but six hundred thousand men supported.
And if the law subtracts something from foods and pronounces unclean certain animals which once were blessed, understand it a counsel for the exercising of continence, and acknowledge the reins imposed upon that gullet which, when it ate the bread of angels, desired the cucumbers and melons of the Egyptians.
Letters
The biblical miraculous food, discussed via Philo's interpretation of its varying taste.
Philo, interpreting the manna, said — as though taught from some Jewish tradition — that its quality was such that it was blended according to the imagination of the eater;
Adversus Judaeos
The miraculous food, called the bread of angels, with which Israel was fed in the wilderness.
For Israel, which had been known to God, and which had been exalted by him in Egypt, and was carried across the Red Sea, and which was fed in the wilderness with manna for forty years — brought to the likeness of eternity, neither defiled with human sufferings nor fed on the foods of this world, but fed on manna, the bread of angels, and bound to God by enough of his benefits — forgot the Lord and …
De Carne Christi
The heavenly bread eaten by the Israelites in the wilderness, cited as an analogy in the discussion of Christ's flesh and its nourishment.
Be it so — let it now also be of starry origin, fed in the same way with earthly food when it was not earthly, as the earthly was fed with heavenly food when it was not heavenly (for we read that manna was for food to the people:
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
The manna provided by God in the wilderness, spurned by the Israelites longing for Egyptian food.
our eyes see nothing but manna.