ACC ~ John 6 v41

LACKING HUNGER OF THE INNER PERSON

AUGUSTINE: But they were far from being fit for that heavenly bread and did not know how to hunger for it…. For this bread requires the hunger of the inner person. TRACTATES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 26.1. [1]

[1] NPNF 1 7:168*.

THE CARNAL QUESTION

CHRYSOSTOM: His meaning is, “You must hear spiritually what relates to me, for he who hears carnally neither profits nor gathers any advantage.” It was carnal to question how Jesus came down from heaven, to consider him as the son of Joseph, to ask, “How can he give us his flesh to eat?” All this was carnal when, instead, they ought to have understood the matter in a mystical and spiritual sense. “But,” says someone, “how could they understand what ‘eating flesh’ might mean?” Then it was their duty to wait for the proper time and enquire, and not to abandon him. HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 47.2. [1]

[1] NPNF 1 14:169-70*.

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