Theophylact of Ohrid, on Mark 8:1

“In those days again, when there was a great multitude, and had nothing to eat; calling his disciples together, he saith to them:”

“Further, the seven loaves are spiritual discourses, for seven is the number, which points out the Holy Ghost, who perfects all things; for our life is perfected in the number of seven days’d.”

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