Tertullian On Prayer

and, a little above, "The Bread is the Word of the living God, who came down from the heavens."[41]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

lump of teaching and of truly ancient leaven,-that according to the bare letter, and on this account not freed from those things which arise from wickedness,-which the Pharisees and Sadducees offered, of which Jesus does not wish His own disciples any longer to eat, having made for them a new and spiritual lump, offering Himself to those who gave up the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees and had come to Him-"the living bread which came down from heaven and gives life to the world."[36]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

As, therefore, the Life is also the living bread which came down from heaven and gave life to the world,[217]

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