{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-1225","native_reference":{"book_number":90,"chapter_from":21,"chapter_to":21,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":4,"verse_to":4},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Bede</b>: And the priest answering David, said to him, etc. Because \"laos\" in Greek means \"people,\" \"laic breads\" signify common breads, that is, those not consecrated by offering, but common and prepared for ordinary use. Therefore, the sacred order of spiritual leaders answering Christ says: I have nothing of secular wisdom in the work of righteousness, but only the word of the Gospel, which I will commit to clean listeners. But neither do I consider that this is to be believed among the Gentiles, unless perhaps those who are converted from the various temptations of errors to the chastity and piety of the one Church virgin. For it is not good to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs (Matthew V; Mark VII).<br/><i>— Commentary on Samuel</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: By \"profane\" he now means not the unclean, but those who are not holy, in contradistinction to the holy loaves set out upon the table. For the table continually held six loaves, being exchanged, on behalf of the twelve tribes of Israel, which they called the loaves \"before the Lord,\" so that each of the loaves was offered on behalf of two tribes, and all of them on behalf of the twelve tribes. What good, then, came from this? That the tribes of Israel were joined together in concord. And what greater thing was signified beforehand? That the blessed apostles were sent out two by two by the Savior to preach first among the tribes of Israel, so that of the twelve disciples the number came to six pairs at once.</p><p>\"Lay\" bread: not because those who are not holy are profane, but because they are being compared with what is holy.<br/><i>— FRAGMENTS ON KINGDOMS 9</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"a4555829fef500b1da30c2e71205e829818971be6cb4c7da800f2823a9800a84","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":1225,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"51f60328fcf04a25bad5906da12a029d45f8d861cbf5ab36a420a207e4fe4271","translator":null,"work":null}