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verifiedWisdom 16:20–21
16:20Instead of these things, you nourished your people with the food of angels, and, having prepared bread from heaven, you served them without labor that which holds within itself every delight and the sweetness of every flavor
16:21For your nature showed your sweetness, which you hold within your sons, and serving the will of each one, it was converted to what each one preferred
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John 6:31–51 — The true bread from heaven
Wisdom describes manna as bread prepared from heaven and suited to every taste. John 6 identifies Jesus as the true bread from heaven; the traditional reading treats the manna as a type of the Eucharistic gift.
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- scriptureWis 16:20-21
- scriptureExod 16
- scriptureJohn 6
- catechismCCC 1333-1335
- church fatherTractate 26, sections 11-13