the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Psalms 78:25
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Man ate the bread of angels;He sent them provision to satisfy.
Man did eat the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.
[So] man dyd eate the bread of angels: he sent them meate inough.
Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full.
Men ate angels' food; He sent them food to the full.
Man ate the bread of the mighty; He sent them food to the full.
These people ate the food of angels. God sent plenty of food to satisfy them.
Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.
Man did eate Angels food: hee sent them meat to the full.
Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
He rayned downe Manna vpo them for to eate, and gaue them bred from heauen.
Man ate the bread of angels; God sent them provision in abundance.
Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full.
Man took part in the food of strong ones; he sent them meat in full measure.
Man ate the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full.
Man ate angels' food: he sent them food to the full.
Man ate the food of the mighty ones. He sent them more than enough to eat.
He gave them more than enough, and each one of them ate this special food.
mortals ate the bread of angels; he provided for them to the full.
Man did eate the bread of Angels: hee sent them meate ynough.
Man did eat angels food; he sent them game in abundance.
Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.
Man did eat the bread of the mighty; He sent them provisions to the full.
Men ate the bread of angels. He sent them all the food they could eat.
Man ate angels’ bread; he sent them provision to the full.
Man did eat the bread of the mighty: he sent them meat to the full.
Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.
Mortals ate of the bread of angels; he sent them food in abundance.
The food of the mighty, each one did eat, Nourishment, sent he them to the full;
(77-25) Man ate the bread of angels: he sent them provisions in abundance.
Humankind ate the bread of angels. He sent them food enough to be satisfied.
Man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.
Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.
So they ate the bread of angels. He sent them all the food they could eat.
So they ate the food of angels, and God gave them all they wanted.
People ate the bread of angels. He sent them an abundant supply of food.
Man eet the breed of aungels; he sent to hem meetis in aboundance.
Food of the mighty hath each eaten, Venison He sent to them to satiety.
Man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Man: etc. Or, Every one did eat the bread of the mighty. Lechem abbeerim, "bread of the mighty" - they ate such food as could only be expected at the tables of the rich and great - the best, the most delicate food. Or, it might be so called because it rendered the people healthy and vigorous, and fit for their marches. Psalms 103:20
he sent: Exodus 16:8, Matthew 14:20, Matthew 15:37
Reciprocal: Exodus 16:4 - I will rain Exodus 16:35 - forty years Numbers 21:5 - and our soul Deuteronomy 29:6 - eaten bread Nehemiah 9:15 - gavest John 6:31 - He gave
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Man did eat angels' food,.... Or, "the bread of the mighty" d; such as Moses and Elijah ate of; so Arama; but Aben Ezra and Kimchi interpret it of the clouds, or skies, said to be strong,
Job 37:18 in which the manna was prepared, and let down: but rather the words may be read, "every man did eat the bread of the mighty ones"; of princes and nobles, and the great men of the earth; it was royal food, it was princely fare; and, indeed, the common people of Israel ate the same as their princes and nobles did; they all fared alike; but the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions, render the word "angels", and so Jarchi interprets it, and who are called mighty angels, and are creatures that excel in strength, 2 Thessalonians 1:7 now the manna may be said to be their food, as it is in the Apocrypha:
"Instead whereof thou feddest thine own people with angels' food, and didst send them from heaven bread prepared without their labour, able to content every man's delight, and agreeing to every taste.'' (Wisdom 16:20)
because it might be prepared in the air by the ministry of angels, and given by their disposition, as the law was, Acts 7:53 or because it came down from heaven, where they dwell, and so the Targum,
"the children of men did eat food, which came down from the habitation of angels;''
or because it was most excellent food, as the tongue of angels is the most excellent and eloquent, 1 Corinthians 13:1, or because it was such food, that, if angels ate any, it was fit for them, and not at all unworthy of them. Cocceius thinks, and so Gussetius e, that by the mighty ones are meant the mighty God, Father, Son, and Spirit, by whom this food was prepared and given; so the word is used in the singular number, of Jehovah, who is called the mighty One of Jacob, Genesis 49:24 and of the Redeemer, Isaiah 49:26,
he sent them meat to the full; which may be understood either of the manna, of which they had great plenty, so that there was no lack for any man, and this continued with them till they came to the land of Canaan; or of the quails, of which in the following verses.
d אבירים "fortium", Pagninus, Montanus, &c. "magnificorum, potentium", Vatablus. e Comment. Ebr. p. 14. Vid. Witsium de Oeconom. Foeder. l. 4. c. 10. sect. 99.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Man did eat angels’ food - Food that came from heaven; food so directly and manifestly from heaven that it might be supposed to be the same kind that was eaten there, and that had now been sent down by a special miracle for man; food so delicate and so free from the ordinary coarse properties of food, that it might be supposed to be such as angels feed on. The word rendered “angels” - אביר 'abbı̂yr - means properly “strong, mighty,” and may be applied to people in general, Judges 5:22; Lamentations 1:15; Jeremiah 46:15; to animals, Psalms 22:13 (“bulls of Bashan”); to princes, Psalms 68:31; or to nobles, Job 24:22. It might be rendered here food of nobles, or princes; that is, food of richer quality, or of a more delicate nature, than common food; such as nobles or princes have on their tables. The immediate connection, however, would rather seem to demand the rendering in our version, as the food is said to have come down from heaven. It is rendered food of angels in the Septuagint, in the Latin Vulgate, in the ancient versions generally, and also by Luther. DeWette renders it, “Each one ate the food of princes;” that is, they all lived like princes.
He sent them meat to the full - Food to satisfy; or, as much as they wanted.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 78:25. Man did eat angels' food — לחם אבירים אכל איש lechem abbirim achal ish, "Man did eat the bread of the mighty ones;" or, each person ate, c. They ate such bread as could only be expected at the tables of the rich and great the best, the most delicate food. How little did this gross people know of the sublime excellence of that which they called light bread, and which they said their soul loathed; Numbers 21:5! It was a type of Jesus Christ, for so says St. Paul: "They all ate the same spiritual meat, and drank the same spiritual drink," c., 1 Corinthians 10:3-4. And our Lord calls himself "the bread that came down from heaven, that giveth life unto the world," John 6:31-35: but a Jew sees nothing but with the eyes of flesh. It is true their doctors or rabbins are full of allegories, mysteries, and conceits but they are, in general, such as would disgrace the Cabinet des Fees, and would not be tolerated in the nursery. O, how thick a veil hangs over their gross and hardened hearts.
