Does Clement Liken the Eucharist to Teachings About the Gospel?

[Secret Alias]

Just wondering if anyone had come across an interpretation where the bread = teachings/interpretation of the gospel.

[MrMacSon]

where breaking and receiving the bread = teaching and receiving the gospel?
(No, haven't come across it anywhere, but any interesting concept)

[andrewcriddle]

Just wondering if anyone had come across an interpretation where the bread = teachings/interpretation of the gospel.

This may be relevant Instructor

And entertaining this view, we may regard the proclamation of the Gospel, which is universally diffused, as milk; and as meat, faith, which from instruction is compacted into a foundation, which, being more substantial than hearing, is likened to meat, and assimilates to the soul itself nourishment of this kind. Elsewhere the Lord, in the Gospel according to John, brought this out by symbols, when He said: Eat my flesh, and drink my blood; [John 6:34] describing distinctly by metaphor the drinkable properties of faith and the promise, by means of which the Church, like a human being consisting of many members, is refreshed and grows, is welded together and compacted of both — of faith, which is the body, and of hope, which is the soul; as also the Lord of flesh and blood. For in reality the blood of faith is hope, in which faith is held as by a vital principle. And when hope expires, it is as if blood flowed forth; and the vitality of faith is destroyed. If, then, some would oppose, saying that by milk is meant the first lessons — as it were, the first food — and that by meat is meant those spiritual cognitions to which they attain by raising themselves to knowledge, let them understand that, in saying that meat is solid food, and the flesh and blood of Jesus, they are brought by their own vainglorious wisdom to the true simplicity.

Andrew Criddle