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Joh_6:49-50. Οἱ πατέρες , κ . τ . λ .] “regeruntur Judaeis verba ipsorum Joh_6:31,” Bengel.
ἀπέθανον … ἀποθάνῃ ] a diversity in the reference which is full of meaning: loss of earthly life, loss of eternal life, whose development, already begun in time (see on Joh_3:15), the death of the body does not interrupt (Joh_11:25).
οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ ἄρτος , κ . τ . λ .] of this nature is the bread which cometh down from heaven: one ( τὶς ) must eat thereof, and (in consequence of this eating) not die. This representation is contained in οὗτος … ἵνα ; see on Joh_6:29. The expression, however, is not conditional ( ἐάν τις ), because the telic reference ( ἵνα ) does not belong to the last part merely. The present participle shows that Jesus does not mean by οὗτος His own concrete Personality, which is not named till Joh_6:51, but intends to set forth and exhibit the true bread from heaven generally, according to its real nature (comp. Joh_6:58). On τὶς , one, comp. Dem. Phil. i. 8, and Bremi, p. 118; Ellendt, Lex. Soph. II. 883; Nägelsbach on the Iliad, p. 299, ed. 3.