That is to say, as many as in that manna vnderstoode Christ, ded eate that same spirytuall meate that we do, but as many as sought onely to fyll their bellyes of that māna (the fathers of the unfaythful) dyd eate and are dead. And lykewyse the same drynke, for the stone was Christ. Here maye you gather of S. Austyn, that the manna was vnto them, as the breade ys to vs, and lykewyse that the water was to them, as the wyne ys to vs, whiche anone shall apeare more playnly. s. Austyn sayth further. [Sidenote: Aug. super Ioā. tract. 26.] _Manducauit & Moyses manna manducauit & Phinees, manducauerunt ibi multi qui deo placuerunt & mortui non sunt. Quare quia uisibilem cibum spiritualiter intellexerunt, spiritualiter esurierunt, spiritualiter gustauerunt, ut spiritualiter satiarentur, omnes eandem escam spiritualem māducauerunt, & omnes eundem potum spiritualem biberunt, spiritualem utique eandem nā corporalem alterā (quia illi manna, nos aliud) spiritualem uero eandem quam nos. Vt omnes eundem potum spiritualem biberunt aliud illi, aliud nos: sed spem uisibili quod tamen hoc idem significaret uirtute spirituali. Quomodo eundem potum biberant (inquit Apostolus) de spirituali sequenti petra: petra autem erat Christus._ That ys to saye, Moses also dede eat manna, and Aaron, ād Phinees, ded eate of yt, which plesed God and are not deade. Wherfore? Because they understode the visyble meate spiritually. They were spiritually an hongred, they tasted yt spiritually, that they myght spiritually be replenyshed. They ded all eate the same spyrytuall meate and all drāke the same spyrytuall drynke. Euen the same spyrituall meate albeit an other bodely meate, for they ded eate manna, and we eat an other thyng, but they ded eate the same spirituall which we doo. And they all ded drynke the same spirituall drynke. They dranke one thynge, and we an other: But that was in the outwarde apparence, which neuerthelesse ded sygnyfye the same thynge spiritually. Nowe dranke they the same drynke. They (sayth Thapostle) drāke of the spirytuall stone folowynge them, and that stone was Christ. And therunto Bede added these wordes. _Videte autem fide manente signa uariata._ That is to saye. Beholde that the sygnes are altered, and yet the faythe abydeth one. [Sidenote: Beda super. 1. Cor. 10.] Of these places you may playnely perceyue not onely that yt is non artycle necessary to be beleued vnder payne of dampnacyō, seynge the olde Fathers neuer beleued yt. And yet ded eate Christ in fayth bothe before they had the manna, and with no lesse frute whan the manna was ceased. And albeit the māna was to them as the sacrament ys to vs, and they eate even the same spirytuall meate that we do, yet were they neuer so madde as to beleue that the manna was chaunged in to Christes owne naturall body. But vnderstode yt spirytually, that as the outwarde man ded eate the materyall manna which comforted the bodye, so ded the inwarde man through fayth, eate the