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Augustine of Hippo — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:1-14

Patristic A.D. 430

Augustine of Hippo · A.D. 354–430

“(Tr. xxiv. s. 5) By the act of breaking He multiplied the five loaves. The five books of Moses, when expounded by breaking, i. e. unfolding them, made many books.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:1-14 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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