Patristic A.D. 430
“(lib. lxxxiv. Quæst. qu. 61) The two fishes again, that gave the pleasant taste to the bread, seem to signify the two authorities by which the people were governed, the Royal, viz. and the Priestly; both of which prefigure our Lord, who sustained both characters.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:1-14
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗