John 6:53

Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I

O amazing birth! O holy swaddling bands! The Word is all to the child, both father and mother and tutor and nurse. "Eat ye my flesh," He says, "and drink my blood."[89]

Tertullian On Baptism

in order that they who believed in His blood might be bathed with the water; they who had been bathed in the water might likewise drink the blood.[163]

Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V

This, he says, is what is spoken by the Saviour: "If ye do not drink my blood, and eat my flesh, ye will not enter into the kingdom of heaven; but even though," He says, "ye drink of the cup which I drink of, whither I go, ye cannot enter there."[79]

Dubious Hippolytus Fragments

by the offence of the word which Christ spoke, "Except a man eat my flesh, and drink my blood, he is not worthy of me."[154]

Cyprian Treatise IV On the Lord's Prayer

efore, He says, that whoever shall eat of His bread shall live for ever; as it is manifest that those who partake of His body and receive the Eucharist by the right of communion are living, so, on the other hand, we must fear and pray lest any one who, being withheld from communion, is separate from Christ's body should remain at a distance from salvation; as He Himself threatens, and says, "Unless ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye shall have no life in you."[48]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Moreover, He says in the same place: "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye shall have no life in you."[113]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Also in the same place: "Unless ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye shall not have life in you."[546]

Origen Commentary on John Book VI " To this we reply that, as the Word of God in His character as something to be drunk is to one set of men water, and to another wine, making glad the heart of man, and to others blood, since it is said,[125]

Origen Commentary on John Book X " The Evangelist here agrees with Paul, and both are involved in the difficulties we spoke of above. But on the other hand we have to say that if the Word became flesh, and the Lord says,[51]