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Scenes from Scripture

The Manna

Quails over the camp at evening, the dew lying round it in the morning, and when the dew is gone, bread from heaven on the face of the wilderness. Scroll to watch it.

And it was evening and the quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning as the dew ceased round about the host, and behold, upon the face of the wilderness a small thing, as coriander seed, white.

Exodus 16:13-14, as St Cyril of Alexandria gives it

He gave them bread from heaven.

Psalm 78:24, as St John Chrysostom gives it

since the typical manna was an image of Christ, Which containeth and upholdeth all things in being, nourishing the angels and quickening the things on earth

Cyril of Alexandria, Commentary on John Book IV