it is Man, or Manna] Or, what is this? or it is a portion the word Manna is one of those words which are received without change, in severall Languages: as Amen, Selah, Hallelujah: some thinke that the word Man, (according to the Egyptian Tongue) is put for Mah, in the Hebrew, signifying who, and sometimes what; others take the word to be a Chaldee or Arabick word, of the same signification: but at this time that dialect was not knowne to the Israelites: and some rather thinke it is a Syriack word: but the most proper derivation of the word is from the Hebrew, Mannah, or Minnah, which is to prepare; so it is a prepared portion, prepared by God, so that they might presently eate of it, though they might grinde, or punne, or bake, or boile it also. The Manna of the Apothecaries, is a Syriack dew; but this differeth from this Manna of the Israelites, many wayes, especially in that the Syriack Manna will not melt with the Sunne, nor putrefie in the night; nor is it hard, nor fit for food, but for physicke onely: in all which particulars the Hebrew Manna is contrary. they wist not what it was] Though they called it a prepared portion, they were not yet acquainted with the proper nature and use of it. This is the bread] John 6:31. 1 Corinthians 10:3.