And they that did eat were four thousand men, besides women and children.
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Remigius of Rheims
AD 533
Or, because correcting by penitence the sins that they have committed, in thought, word, and deed, they turn to the Lord. These multitudes the Lord would not send away fasting, that they should not faint by the way; because sinners turning in penitence, perish in their passage through the world, if they aresent away without the nourishment of sacred teaching.