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WE read in the gospel that when five loaves were at the Lord's bidding
brought to Him an immense number of God's people were fed with them. But
how this was done it is impossible to explain, or to understand or to
imagine. So great and so incomprehensible is the, might of Divine Power,
that though we are perfectly assured of the fact, yet we are unable to
understand the manner of the fact. For first one would have to comprehend
how so small a number of loaves could be sufficient, I will not say for
them to eat and be filled, but even to be divided and set before them, when
there were many more thousands of men than there were loaves; and almost
more companies than there could be fragments of the whole number of loaves.
The plentiful supply then was the creation of the word of the Lord. The
work grew in the doing of it. And though what was visible was but little;
yet what was given to them became more than could be reckoned. There is
then no room for conjecture, for human speculation, or imagination. The
only thing in such a case is that like faithful and wise men we should
acknowledge that, however great and incomprehensible are the things which
are done by God, even if they are altogether beyond our comprehension, we
must recognize that nothing is impossible with God. But of these
unspeakable acts of Divine Power, we will, as the subject demands it,
speaks more fully later on, because it exactly corresponds to the ineffable
miracles of His Holy Nativity.
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