Patristic A.D. 430
“(Tr. xxiv. 5) The boy who had these is perhaps the Jewish people, who, as it were, carried the loaves and fishes after a servile fashion, and did not eat them. That which they carried, while shut up, was only a burden to them; when opened became their food.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:1-14
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗