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Joh 6:31. Ἔφαγον, did eat) They appear to speak more moderately than if they were to say: Moses gave us [a sign], therefore our fathers believed him: do Thou also give, and we will believe Thee: comp. ver. foll.-ἄρτον ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς φαγεῖν) Septuag., Exo 16:4, ἄρτους ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ; Psa 78:24, ἄρτον οὐρανοῦ ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς; Exod. same ch. Joh 6:15, ἔδωκε φαγεῖν. If that λεπτόν [Septuag. Exo 16:14; “a small round thing,” Engl. Vers.], small thing, was true bread, (Num 11:7, “The manna was as coriander seed,”) why should not also circular loaves [as the five, with which Jesus fed the 5000] be true bread?-ἐκ τοῦ σὐρανοῦ, from heaven) Heaven, as opposed to the earth, is taken in the widest sense in the psalm; whence manna is also called the bread of angels, or of heavenly beings: but Jesus opposes to the heaven from which the ancient manna came, the highest heaven. It is with reference to this that the Lord Himself seven times saith, that He has come from heaven: Joh 6:32-33; Joh 6:38; Joh 6:50-51; Joh 6:58; Joh 6:62.