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The Miracles of the Loaves and the Gentiles in St. Mark's Gospel
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2009
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In their homiletical expositions of the Scriptures, the patristic writers freely employed symbolical methods. Origen, for instance, understood the two miracles with which we are concerned here to signify the giving of the Word of God to the Gentiles; whilst Augustine held that the feeding of the five thousand symbolised that salvation was for the Jews, and that of the four thousand its offering to the Gentiles. Many modern scholars say that Augustine's exegesis would, in this respect, have been Mark's view of these two miracles.
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page 83 note 1 
in 10.45 and 
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