1 Corinthians 10:3 - Exposition

And did all eat the same spiritual meat. As the cloud and the Red Sea symbolized the waters of baptism, so the manna and the water of the rock symbolized the elements of the other Christian sacrament, the Lord's Supper. The manna might be called "a spiritual food," both because it was "angels' food" ( Psalms 78:25 ; Wis. 16:20) and "bread from heaven" ( Psalms 78:24 ; John 6:31 ), and also because it was a type of "God's good Spirit," which he "gave to instruct them" ( Nehemiah 9:20 ). St. Paul only knows of two sacraments.