From Nave’s Topical Bible
Manna
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 15Passages listed
- 10Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- General scriptures concerningExodus 16:4–35Numbers 11:6–10Deuteronomy 8:3Deuteronomy 8:16Joshua 5:12Nehemiah 9:20Psalms 78:24John 6:31John 6:49John 6:58
- Preserved in the ark of the testimonyExodus 16:33Hebrews 9:4
- FIGURATIVEJohn 6:48–511 Corinthians 10:3Revelation 2:17
The passages, in Bible order (15)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 15 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Exodus 16:4–35
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.
Commentary on Exodus 16:4–351 voice
These incidents are quite well known from our reading of Exodus, for quails rained down like the heaviest shower, and the Jews received manna to get their fill. But to demonstrate that this was a prefiguration, he spoke not of manna but of the bread …
Cassiodorus· EXPOSITION OF THE PSALMS 104.40, 585Patristic
- Exodus 16:33
So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.”
Commentary on Exodus 16:332 voices
And Moses said unto Aaron, take a pot,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
A pot - The word here used occurs in no other passage. It corresponds in form and use to the Egyptian for a casket or vase in which oblations were presented.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Numbers 11:6–10
But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!”
Commentary on Numbers 11:6–101 voice
But now our soul is dried away,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 8:3
He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 8:31 voice
One who possesses the Word, who is almighty God, needs nothing and never lacks any of the things he desires, for the Word is an infinite possession and the source of all our wealth. However, someone may object and insist that he has often seen the just in need of food. This is rare and happens only where no one else is just. Besides, let him read the beautiful sentence, "It is not by bread alone that the just man lives, but by the Word of the Lord," who is the true bread, the bread of heaven.
Clement of Alexandria· The Instructor Book 3, 215Patristic
- Deuteronomy 8:16
He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 8:161 voice
Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Joshua 5:12
And the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan.
Commentary on Joshua 5:122 voices
Indeed at that time, when the people went out of the land of Egypt, "they carried dough in their clothes." And when the dough had run out and they had no bread, God rained manna on them. But when they came to the holy land and "took the fruit of the province of the palms, the manna ceased for them," and then they began to eat of the fruit of the land.In this manner, three kinds of food in general are described.
Origen of Alexandria· HOMILIES ON JOSHUA 6.1, 253Patristic
And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land,.... There being now no further need of it; miracles are not wrought or continued when unnecessary; for the ceasing of the manna shows, that it was not a common but an extraordinary provision. The ceasing of the manna, which was a type of Christ, may signify the cessation of Gospel ordinances, in which Christ is held forth as food for his people.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Nehemiah 9:20
You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.
Commentary on Nehemiah 9:201 voice
Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 78:24
He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.
Commentary on Psalms 78:242 voices
Ver. 24. And had rained down manna upon them to eat. There was so much of it, the skies poured with food, the clouds burst with provender. It was fit food, proper not for looking at but for eating; they could eat it as they gathered it. Mysterious though it was, so that they called it manna, or "what is it?" yet it was eminently adapted for human nourishment; and it was both abundant and adapted, so also was it available!
Charles Spurgeon· The Treasury of David (1869-1885)Reformed
And had rained down manna upon them to eat,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- John 6:31
Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
Commentary on John 6:311 voice
Now, just before (the passage in hand), He had declared His flesh to be "the bread which cometh down from heaven," 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. Then, turning His subject to their reflections, because He perceived that they were going to be scattered from Him, He says: "The flesh profiteth nothing.
Tertullian· On the Resurrection of the Flesh, 220Patristic
- John 6:48–51
I am the bread of life.
Commentary on John 6:48–511 voice
God by his living Word enlivens everyone and gives his Word as food and life to the saints, as the Lord declares, "I am the bread of life." … But sin, too, has its own special bread—of death, calling to those who are lovers of pleasure and lack understanding. [Sin] says, "Touch with delight secret bread and sweet waters that are stolen." For one who merely touches them has no idea that what is born from the earth perishes with [sin].
Athanasius of Alexandria· FESTAL LETTER 7.4-6, 373Patristic
- John 6:49
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
Commentary on John 6:491 voice
It has been proven that the sacraments of the church are more ancient; now realize that they are more powerful. In very fact it is a marvelous thing that God rained manna on the ancestors and they were fed by daily nourishment from heaven. Therefore, it is said, "Humankind has eaten the bread of angels."
Ambrose of Milan· On the Mysteries 8.47, 397Patristic
- John 6:58
This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”
Commentary on John 6:581 voice
Great (saith He) ought to be the effects of great things, and the gifts of the Grace from above, should appear God-befitting and worthy of the Divine Munificence. For if thou have wholly received in faith that the Bread came, down from heaven, let it produce continous life in them that long after it, and have the unceasing Operation of immortality.
Cyril of Alexandria· Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 4, 444Patristic
- 1 Corinthians 10:3
They all ate the same spiritual food
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 10:31 voice
What we eat, what we drink, the Holy Spirit expresses to you elsewhere, saying; "Taste and see that the Lord is sweet. Blessed is the one who trusts in him." Christ is in that sacrament, because the body is Christ's. So the food is not corporeal but spiritual.
Ambrose of Milan· On the Mysteries 56, 397Patristic
- Hebrews 9:4
containing the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. Inside the ark were the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
Commentary on Hebrews 9:42 voices
The brothers assembled at evening as was their custom. For in all seasons, when they had finished their modest meal, it was their habit to assemble and for each one to pronounce what he knew of the holy Scriptures.… The brother who had returned from …
Pachomius the Great· LIFE OF PACHOMIUS (BOHAIRIC) 29, 348Patristic
If you wish to achieve true knowledge of Scripture, you must hurry to achieve unshakable humility of heart. This is what will lead you not to the knowledge that puffs a person up but to the love which illuminates through the achievement of love. It is impossible for the unclean of heart to acquire the gift of spiritual knowledge.
John Cassian· CONFERENCE 14.10, 435Patristic
- Revelation 2:17
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.
Commentary on Revelation 2:172 voices
He that hath an ear, let him hear,.... See Gill on Rev 2:7. To him that overcometh; the Balaamites and Nicolaitans, and do not give in to the doctrines and practices of the one, or of the other, whatever persecution and trouble he meets with, and endures on that account: will I give to eat of the hidden manna; in opposition to eating things sacrificed to idols, refused by him.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
But as the engrafted wild olive does not certainly lose the substance of its wood, but changes the quality of its fruit, and receives another name, being now not a wild olive, but a fruit-bearing olive, and is called so; so also, when man is grafted in by faith and receives the Spirit of God, he certainly does not lose the substance of flesh, but changes the quality of the fruit [brought forth, i.e., ] of his works, and receives another name, showing that he has become changed for the better, being now not [mere] flesh and blood, but a spiritual man, and is called such.
Irenaeus· Against Heresies Book V, 202Patristic