Luk. 9. 16.
The text.
And taking the fiue loaues, and the two fishes, he looked vp to heauen, and ∴ blessed them: and brake, and distributed to his disciples, for to set before the multitude.
The note.
Here you see that he blessed the things, and not onely gaue thanks to God. See annot. Mark. cap. 8. 7.
The answer.
Who can better tell what is ment by blessing, then the holie Ghost himselfe, who in the fiftéenth of Matthew, & in the sixt of Iohn expresseth the same by giuing of thanks? Neither is there any cause, or reason in this place, why any farther matter should be thought, or imagined to be ment by blessing. And as for the se∣uerall blessing of the bread first, and then the fishes afterward, is but your dreame, without warrant. Your annotation shall be considered of with the residue of the same sort.