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 from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the Living Bread which came down from heaven." (John vi. 31-51.) The Israelites, who were external people, knew nothing of a celestial state, and when they saw the manna, they neither knew what it was, nor what it represented. Neither did they call it manna, or give it that name, for when they saw it lie upon the face of the wilderness, as "a small round thing," they said one to another "Man-hu?" that is, "What is it?" for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, "This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat." Inasmuch as manna signifies celestial good—all that gives spiritual life to man—it is therefore called the "corn of heaven," and "angels' food." (Psalm lxxviii. 24, 25.) The apostle Paul, speaking of manna, represents it as something interior and most holy, and says that the "golden pot that had manna," was with the ark of the covenant in the most Holy Place. (Heb. ix. 4)

HE Psalmist here makes the observation, that the "stone which the builders refused, is become the head stone of the corner." The elevation of this stone is not by the power of any human being, for, he observes, "this is the Lord's doing," and in consequence of its being the work of the Al-