The Old Testament and the Modern Day

He's equating these events in the old testament with the modern day, and withthe modern day. Back then too, events of the sacraments that people partake in. Just as you have ate eaten the bread at the supper, so too the people ate the bread back then with the mammon. This is all very sacramental languagend. The different in the differenceis is that hes going to point this out, that what we have now is much better than what they had then.