单词 | living bread |
释义 | > as lemmasliving bread living bread n. Theology (Christian Church) (frequently with the) used with reference or allusion to Christ as the spiritual nourishment which brings eternal life; (also) the Eucharistic bread; cf. senses A. 3a and A. 4.In John 6:51 (see quot. a1425), Christ uses the phrase of himself, contrasted with the manna earlier provided as sustenance for the Israelites in the wilderness (see manna n.1 1a). [After post-classical Latin panis vivus (Vulgate), itself after Hellenistic Greek ὁ ἄρτος ὁ ζῶν , lit. ‘the living bread’ (New Testament); compare lively bread and Old English līflic hlāf , both at lively adj. 1b, and the etymological note at that entry.] ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > giving of life > [noun] > one who or that which living breada1425 quickenera1500 vivificatora1555 life-giver1569 vivification1631 informer1662 vivifier1860 vitalizer1882 a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) John vi. 51 Y am lyuynge breed [c1384 E.V. quyk breed; L. panis vivus], that cam doun fro heuene. If ony man ete of this breed, he schal lyue withouten ende. And the breed that Y schal ȝyue, is my fleisch for the lijf of the world. 1532 tr. G. van der Goude Interpretacyon & Sygnyfycacyon Masse iii. Prol. sig. p.iv In all maner that the naturall breade is apoynted and laboured for the profyte of the body so is also the lyuynge breade spyrytually apoynted in the holy sacrament. 1616 T. Granger Bread of Life 30 It is liuing bread, not onely because it hath life in it selfe, but also because it giueth life vnto vs which are dead. 1754 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 431/1 With healthful meat our bodies fed, Our souls sustained with living bread. 1838 J. H. Newman Lect. Justif. vi. 170 The two Sacraments ‘of the Gospel’, are the instruments of inward life, according to our Lord's declaration, that Baptism is a new birth, and that in the Eucharist we eat the living Bread. 1869 R. Newton Bible Wonders 85 Luther..said he would never stop preaching to the people about Jesus, and so keep from them the living bread. 1988 D. Eastman & J. Hayford Living & Praying in Jesus' Name xxviii. 165 In Christ, who is our ‘living bread’, salvation is freely given. 2015 News-Item (Shamokin, Pa.) (Nexis) 17 Aug. The Eucharist always nourished him, like it nourishes us today and every day we accept the living bread. < as lemmas |
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