So Gedeon went in, and boiled a kid, and made unleavened loaves of a measure of flour: and putting the flesh in a basket, and the broth of the flesh into a pot, he carried all under the oak, and presented to him.
Glossa Ordinaria
He entered in. (Greg., bk. III of the Morals, ch. 17.) When Gedeon was beating out the grain from the chaff, etc., up to but let him also wipe away everything that is shamefully bound up within himself through thoughts. Him whom his father assigned to deceits, Gedeon slew, and offered another, seven years old, to God; in which he showed that after the coming of Christ all the sacrifices of heathendom were to be abolished, and that now only the sacrifice of the passion of Christ was to be offered to God for the redemption of the people. For he himself is the calf of seven years, full, that is, of the sevenfold Spirit.
English is machine-translated from the public-domain Latin (Glossa Ordinaria, Migne, Patrologia Latina 113-114, 1852; digital text from Corpus Corporum, mlat.uzh.ch), since no public-domain English translation exists. It is not a scholarly translation. Please report errors.