John 6:58

Ver. 58. “ This is the bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat the manna and are dead; he who eats this bread shall live forever. ”

The pronoun οὖτος does not mean: “ Such is the bread” (Reuss, Keil); but “ This bread (John 6:57) is that which came down,” that which the manna was not in reality; hence the two opposite consequences pointed out in what follows. Here is the final appeal: to reject it, will be to die; to accept it, will be to live.