AC 680 - goods and truths are the genuine foods

AC 680 [2]
...it must be sufficiently evident how corporeal is man at the present day...he is disposed to take everything that is said in the Word in the most gross and material sense. The Lord Himself clearly teaches what is meant in His Word by "food" and "bread." Concerning "food" he speaks in John:

Jesus said, Labor not for the meat (or food) which perishes,
but for that meat which endures to eternal life,
which the Son of man shall give to you. (John 6:27)

And concerning "bread" He says, in the same chapter:

Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
This is the Bread which comes down from heaven,
that a man may eat thereof and not die.
I am the living Bread which came down from heaven;
if any man eat of this Bread he shall live eternally. (John 6: 49-51, 58)

But at the present day there are men like those who heard these words
and said:
"This is a hard saying; who can hear it?"
and who "went back and walked no more with Him" (John 6:60,66),
to whom the Lord said:
"The words that I speak unto you you they are spirit and they are life"
(John 6:63).