Matthew Poole and continuators on John 6:50

50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die .

But I am that Bread of Life, who came out of the [illegible: 1 letter]ighest Heavens, from the bosom of my Father; that Bread which if a man eateth thereof, he shall never dye eternally. Eating Christ in this Text signifieth no more than believing in him, so often before mentioned under the Notion of coming to him, believing in him, &c. And believing is fitly expressed by this Notion of Eating; because as eating is the application of Meat to our Stomacks, for the sustenance of our Bodily Life; so believing is the application of Christ to the Soul, for the beginning and increase of Spiritual Life, and at last obtaining Life Eternal.

Marginal references: Ver. 51, 58.