{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/009/0090376.htm","path":"chr/ecf/009/0090376.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/009/0090376.htm","text":"25. Healing Precedes Participation in the Loaves of Jesus.\nAfter this the word says, \u201cAnd when p. 431 even was come, His disciples came to Him, saying, The place is desert and the time is already past; send, therefore, the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food.\u201d 5335 And first observe that when about to give to the disciples the loaves of blessing, that they might set them before the multitudes, He healed the sick, in order that, having been restored to health, they might participate in the loaves of blessing; for while they are yet sickly, they are not able to receive the loaves of the blessing of Jesus. But if any one, when he ought to listen to the precept, \u201cBut let each prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread,\u201d etc., 5336 does not obey these words, but in haphazard fashion participates in the bread of the Lord and His cup, he becomes weak or sickly, or even\u2014if I may use the expression\u2014on account of being stupefied by the power of the bread, asleep.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol IX: Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew.: Chapter XXV","type":"page"}