Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxi Pg 17
1 Kings xvii. 7–16.
If you also turn to the fourth book, you will discover all this conduct4272 4272 Ordinem.
of Christ pursued by that man of God, who ordered ten4273 4273 I have no doubt that ten was the word written by our author; for some Greek copies read δέκα, and Ambrose in his Hexaëmeron, book vi. chap. ii., mentions the same number (Fr. Junius).
barley loaves which had been given him to be distributed among the people; and when his servitor, after contrasting the large number of the persons with the small supply of the food, answered, “What, shall I set this before a hundred men?” he said again, “Give them, and they shall eat: for thus saith the Lord, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof, according to the word of the Lord.”4274 4274
Anf-03 iv.iv.iii Pg 8
See Ex. xxxii.; and compare 1 Cor. x. 7, where the latter part of Ex. xxxii. 6 is quoted.