Orthodox Forge

The Names of Christ

The Bread of Life

Wheat in the wind, the harvest gathered, and one loaf on a table of stone with the light of heaven come down on it. Scroll to watch it.

I am the Bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and died: This is the Bread Which came down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not die.

John 6:48-50, as St Cyril of Alexandria gives it

I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever.

John 6:51, as St Athanasius gives it

For the bread of Wisdom is living fruit, as the Lord said; ‘I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever.’ For when Israel ate of the manna, which was indeed pleasant and wonderful, yet he died

Athanasius of Alexandria, Festal Letters VII