fourtie yeares] Which were at an end on the morrow after they came into the Land of Canaan, and had eaten off the old corne of the land, Joshua 5:12. that is, of the provision remaining of the former yeares store: where we see God will not supply men with miraculous meanes, when ordinary means is afforded unto them. This Manna, Psal. 78. 5: 25. is called in the Hebrew, the food, or bread of the mighty, usually translated, Angels food: not that Angels eate any food at all, unlesse when they take an humane shape, as Gen. 18. vers. 8. for they are spirituall substances, without bodies: but as some conceive, because it had a vertue to nourish above ordinary food, and so (if sinne hindered not) would draw out a mans life, rather to angelicall, then an humane duration, or living: or it might be called the food of Angels, because it came from the habitation of Angels; or because it was made by the ministery of Angels or for that, if the Angels were to be nourished as men are, they need not any more dainty diet: so it is commended in the name of Angels, as Eloquence is, 1 Corinthians 13:1. where a tongue is attributed to them, not by way of position, but of supposition: but it is without doubt that our Saviour maketh it a type of himselfe, John 6:33. and so doth the Apostle, 1 Corinthians 10:3.