46. *Not that any man hath seen the Father.* It is, says St. Augustine, “as if He said: Do not when I tell you: Every man that hath heard and learned of the Father, say to yourselves: We have never seen the Father, and how then can we have learned from Him? Hear Him then in Me, I know the Father, and am from Him.” 47. Amen, amen dico vobis: Qui 47. Amen, amen, I say unto credit in me, habet vitam you: He that believeth in me aeternam. hath everlasting life. 47. Having pointed out the necessity of faith (verse 29), its sufficiency (verse 35), and the necessary condition to it, namely, the grace of God and correspondence therewith (verses 44, 45), He now solemnly repeats what He had declared in verses 35 and 37, that he who believes in Him shall have eternal life. The present tense, *hath everlasting life*, need create no difficulty here: for he who believes will receive the Blessed Eucharist, the food “that endureth unto everlasting life,” (verse 57); and the present tense is so used to indicate the certainty with which the result will follow. 48. Ego sum panis vitae. 48. I am the bread of life. 49. Patres vestri 49. Your fathers did eat manna manducaverunt manna in in the desert, and are dead. deserto, et mortui sunt. 50. Hic est panis de coelo 50. This is the bread which descendens: ut si quis ex ipso cometh down from heaven: that manducaverit, non moriatur. if any man eat of it, he may not die. 51. Ego sum panis vivus, qui 51. I am the living bread, de coelo descendi. which came down from heaven. 48‐51. Before quitting this portion of His discourse, and going on to declare _how_ He is the bread of life, Christ sums up what He has said, repeating again the proposition laid down in verse 35: “I am the bread of life;” again comparing and preferring the Blessed Eucharist to the manna (49, 50 compared with 32, 35); and combining in one the two propositions contained in verses 35 and 38, namely, that He is the bread, and that He came down from heaven. In verse 50 where it is declared that he who eats this bread shall not die, the meaning is, that the Blessed Eucharist, _of its own nature_, is calculated to save us from the death of the soul, and to secure even for our bodies a glorious resurrection. Sin, of course, may rob it of its glorious effects. 52. Si quis manducaverit ex 52. If any man eat of this hoc pane, vivet in aeternuum: bread, he shall live for ever: et panis, quem ego dabo, caro and the bread that I will mea est pro mundi vita. give, is my flesh for the life of the world.