And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.
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Gregory The Dialogist
AD 604
Mor. 16, 55: The different ranks in which those who ate lie down, mark out the divers churches which make up theone Catholic. But the Jubilee restis contained in the mystery of the number fifty, and fifty must be doubled before it reaches up to a hundred. As then the first step is to rest from doing evil, that afterwards the soul may rest more fully from evil thoughts, some liedown in parties of fifty, others of a hundred.
