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Matthew 16:12

Western Saints

Jerome

By occasion of the precept, which the Savior had commanded, saying: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees, He teaches them what the five loaves and the seven signify: the five thousand men, and the four thousand, who were fed in the wilderness. Although the greatness of the miracles is clear, yet something else is shown in spiritual understanding. …

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Thomas Aquinas

Then they understood etc. Here the correction is set forth. Hence they were corrected by his speech; Ps. 118:130: the declaration of thy words giveth light, and giveth understanding to little ones.

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