Jerome, on Matt 16:5

“And when his disciples were come over the water, they had forgotten to take bread.”

“Thus He takes this occasion to instruct them what is meant by the five loaves and the seven loaves, the five thousand and the four thousand, who were fed in the desert. For if the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees signified not earthly food, but corrupt traditions and heretical dogmas, why should not the food with which the people of God is nourished signify the true and uncorrupt doctrine?”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.