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Angels’ food; manna, so called, either,
1. Because was made by the ministry of angels. Or rather,
2. Because of its excellency, such food as might befit the angels they could cat food, and such as hath some resemblance with the blessed angels in regard of its heavenly origin; its pure and spirituous substance, its rigour and efficacy preserving and nourishing those who used it according God’s appointment. Or this place may be translated as is in the margin, every one did eat the bread of the mighty i.e. even the common Israelites fed upon as delicious as the greatest nobles and princes used to do.
Sent them meat to the full; which may belong, either,
1. To the flesh mentioned in the following verses, which God gave them even to satiety or glutting, which he threatened to do, Num_11:18-20. Or rather,
2. To the manna, of which he is here speaking, which he gave them in such plenty, that their desire of other food could not proceed from their necessity, but merely from wantonness and lust.