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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
He said to them: Bring them to me here. Listen, Marcion, listen, Manichaee, Jesus orders five loaves and two fish to be brought to him, so that he may sanctify and multiply them.
Thomas Aquinas
He said: bring them here to me. Here the manner of distribution is presented; and first, the presentation; second, the arranging of the crowds; third, the prayer; fourth, the distribution. Hence he says he said. He, who was omnipotent, could have created new loaves; but he willed to refresh them from loaves already made. But what is the reason? The literal reason according to Chrysostom is to refute the heresy of the Manicheans, who said these creatures were made by the Devil, against what is written in 1 Tim. …
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