Day 36 - Leviticus 23-24
Bible in a Year with Fr Paul · Fr Paul Guirgis
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In the first place, the figure of the twelve apostles is clearly foretold here in the very number of the loaves, for when the Lord appeared in flesh he chose them to be the first of those by whose ministry he gave the food of life to all nations. And then to these same disciples of his (that is, to our apostles), he says in reference to the multitudes hungering in the wilderness, "You give them something to eat." And when five thousand men had been satisfied from the five loaves, they "gathered twelve baskets of fragments," doubtless because those sacraments of the Scriptures which the multitudes are not able to receive belong to the apostles and the apostolic men―Bede