Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 32. Moses gave you not bread from heaven; that is the manna was not given to your forefathers by Moses, but by God’s goodness. 2dly. Neither came it from heaven, but from the clouds, or from the region of the air only. 3dly. It did not make them that eat it live for ever; but they that spiritually eat me, the living bread; that is, believe in me, and keep my commandments, shall live for ever.—V. 37, 44, and 66. No one can come to me, unless the Father draw him. [1] These verses are commonly expounded of God’s elect; who are not only called, but saved, by a particular mercy and providence of God. God is said to draw them to himself by special and effectual graces, yet without any force or necessity, without prejudice to the liberty of their free-will. A man, says Saint Augustine is said to be drawn by his pleasures, and by what he loves. Witham.