| 单词 | bread of life |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbread of life bread of life n. (in Christian contexts) (a) (a name for) Jesus Christ; (b) the sacramental bread or host in the Eucharist; (c) a source of spiritual nourishment, esp. that of Christian faith.With allusion to John 6:35 (see quot. c1384). ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > consumables > eucharistic elements > bread > [noun] fleshc1000 ofleteOE mannaa1200 breada1225 bread of lifea1300 host1303 bodya1325 obleya1325 God's bodya1387 cakec1390 singing bread1432 bread of wheata1450 singing loaf1530 God's bread1535 bread god?1548 round robin?1548 holy bread1552 singing cake1553 Jack-in-the-box1554 wafer-cake?1554 wafer1559 wafer-bread1565 breaden god1570 mass cake1579 wafer-god1623 hostel1624 maker1635 hostie1641 oblata1721 altar bread1839 prosphora1874 a1300 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 115 Þat bred of hele & of lif, ihesu crist þe hende. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John vi. 35 Sothly Jhesu seide to hem, I am breed of lyf [L. panis vitae]. ?1543 M. Coverdale Christen Exhortacion f. 4v From thence [sc. from the word of God] shuld we fetch..the breade of lyfe. 1614 J. Norden Load-starre to Spirituall Life ix. 75 Men that are wise in Christ..feede on the heauenly Manna, Angels bread, the bread of life. 1701 G. Stanhope tr. St. Augustine Pious Breathings 257 Thou art the Bread of Life, every day eaten, yet still whole and never consumed. 1896 R. A. Torrey How to study Bible v. 83 Was it accidential [sic] that Bethlehem, the name of the place where the Bread of Life was born, means ‘House of bread’? 1918 Ogden (Utah) Standard 4 Mar. 5/1 To a man love is merely the icing on the cake of life, but to a woman love is the bread of life, and she starves and perishes without it. 2015 Daily Nation (Kenya) (Nexis) 3 Aug. Attending the first service means making sacrifices. We do not take breakfast. We prefer to first devour the bread of life. < as lemmas |
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