The most probable view seems to be that from verse 27, wherever there is question of the bread (verses 27, 32, 33, 35, ... 59), the Blessed Eucharist is meant. Christ began in verse 27 to promise the Blessed Eucharist, but the Jews interrupted Him (verse 28), and their interruption raised the question of faith in Him, so that He digressed for a time from His main purpose to explain the necessity of faith, in order to ensure a fruitful reception of the Eucharist. But though we admit this digression, we hold that wherever Christ refers to the bread to be given, He means the Blessed Eucharist, and that the reference to it begins in verse 27. For— (1) In verse 27 He speaks of a food that was still _to be given in the future_, just as in verse 52, where all Catholics admit there is question of the Eucharist. (2) This food was to be given by the Son of Man, Christ Himself; and though in verse 32 the Father is said to give it, this is naturally explained by saying that the Father gives us in the Incarnation what Christ gives in a sacramental form in the Eucharist. (3) The food in verse 27, is a food for which, as we shall see, faith is a _preparation_; therefore, not itself faith. (4) In verses 32, 33, there is question of a bread that cometh down from heaven, and giveth life to the world, and in verse 59, of a bread to which the very same properties are attributed; and in both cases this heaven‐ descended, life‐giving bread is contrasted with the manna. Is it not natural, then, to conclude, remembering that both passages belong to the same discourse, that the same bread is meant in both instances? And now we have seen—(1) that there is reference to the Blessed Eucharist in this discourse; (2) to a real reception of Christ in it; and (3) that the reference most probably begins in verse 27. Having got so far, it will not be very difficult to interpret the discourse, and to this we proceed at once. 27. Operamini non cibum qui 27. Labour not for the meat perit, sed qui permanet in which perisheth, but for that vitam aeternam, quem Filius which endureth unto life hominis dabit vobis. Hunc enim everlasting, which the son of Pater signavit Deus. man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed.