Luke 8:4
Douay-Rheims
And when a very great multitude was gathered together, and hastened out of the cities unto him, he spoke by a similitude.
Bede the Venerable
For by fruit a hundredfold, he means perfect fruit. For the number ten is always taken to imply perfection, because in ten precepts is contained the keeping, or the observance of the law. But the number ten multiplied by itself amounts to a hundred; hence by a hundred very great perfection is signified.
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A.D. 735 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 8:4-15
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