Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
Meats, but fed on "angel's loaves".
Impressing on (His hearers) constantly under the figure of necessary food the memory of their forefathers, who had preferred the bread and flesh of Egypt to their divine calling.
