{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Further, the Word declares Himself to be the bread of heaven. “For\r\nMoses,” He says, “gave you not that bread from heaven, but my Father\r\ngiveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is He that\r\ncometh down from heaven, and giveth life to the world. And the bread\r\nwhich I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the\r\nworld.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_247\" id=\"FNanchor_247\">[247]</a> Here is to be noted the mystery of the bread, inasmuch<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_145\">[145]</span> as\r\nHe speaks of it as flesh, and as flesh, consequently, that has risen\r\nthrough fire, as the wheat springs up from decay and germination;\r\nand, in truth, it has risen through fire for the joy of the church,\r\nas bread baked. But this will be shown by and by more clearly in the\r\nchapter on the resurrection. But since He said, “And the bread which I\r\nwill give is my flesh,” and since flesh is moistened with blood, and\r\nblood is figuratively termed wine, we are bidden know that, as bread,\r\ncrumbled into a mixture of wine and water, seizes on the wine and\r\nleaves the watery portion, so also the flesh of Christ, the bread of\r\nheaven, absorbs the blood; that is, those among men who are heavenly,\r\nnourishing them up to immortality, and leaving only to destruction the\r\nlusts of the flesh.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER VI. THE NAME CHILDREN DOES NOT IMPLY INSTRUCTION IN ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_247","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-257"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3fa63928ed7ecfa33088e37fd6b88c8ab9db179dfc155760fdc672312e5a9221","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John vi. 32","verse":32,"verse_end":32}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_247","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_247","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_247\" id=\"Footnote_247\">[247]</a> John vi. 32, 33, 51.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_247","text_sha256":"be3e5b8d8064b64314fdcd447777752a63a11e7035b780067980a62c92f00750","verified":false,"work_id":null}