Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 78:25
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Psalms78:25
25 Man did eat angels food: he sent them meat to the full.
Manna, so called either 1. because it was made by the Ministry of Angels, or rather 2. Because of its excellency, such food as might befit the Angels, if they could eat food, and such as hath some resemblance with the blessed Angels in regard of its heavenly originals, its pure and spirituous substance, its vigour and efficacy, in preserving and nourishing those who used it according to God's appointment, Or this place may be translated as it is in the Margent, Every one did eat the bread of the mighty, (i. e.) Even the common Israelites fed upon as delicious food as the greatest Nobles and Princes use to do.
l Which may belong either 1. To the flesh mentioned in the following Verses which God gave them even to satiety or glutting, which he threatned to do, Numb. 11. 18, 19, 20. Or rather 2. To the Manna of which he is here speaking, which he gave them in such plenty, that their desire of other food could not proceed from their necessity, but merely from wantonness and lust.
Marginal references: Or, every o[illegible: 1+ letters] did eat the bread of the mighty.
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