Feeding of the multitude
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
feeding of the multitude · he feeds the people in the wilderness
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1 expressionthe feeding of the multitude1 mention
Adversus Marcionem (Latin)
If you unfold the fourth too, you will find this whole order of Christ about that man of God who, when ten barley loaves had been offered him, bade them be distributed with the people, and his minister, accordingly considering the multitude and the smallness of the food, had answered, "What should I give of this in the sight of a hundred men?
in the texts
Stromata
The Gospel miracle of feeding a multitude, interpreted allegorically.
Perhaps too the Lord fed that multitude reclining on the grass over against Tiberias with the two fishes and the five barley loaves, hinting at the preliminary education of Greeks and Jews before the divine wheat of the food husbanded according to the law;
Adversus Marcionem
Christ's miracle of feeding the multitude in the wilderness, compared with the manna of Moses and Elisha's barley-loaves miracle.
If you unfold the fourth too, you will find this whole order of Christ about that man of God who, when ten barley loaves had been offered him, bade them be distributed with the people, and his minister, accordingly considering the multitude and the smallness of the food, had answered, "What should I give of this in the sight of a hundred men?