And he said unto them,
Come you yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest awhile:
for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
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Bede
AD 735
The great happiness of those days can be seen from the hard work of those who taught and the enthusiasm of those who learned. If only in our time such a concourse of faithful hearers would again press round the ministers of the word.
