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Bede the Venerable — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:1-14

Patristic A.D. 735

Bede the Venerable · c. A.D. 672–735

“(Hom. in Luc. c. vi.) Barley is the food of cattle and slaves: and the old law was given to slaves and cattle, i. e. to carnal men.”

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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