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Scripture is coūted to be som¦times meate, somtimes drinke: drinke in light places, meate in obscure places, which in expoū∣dinge is as it were eaten being broken. It was not therefore withoute great mysterie that Christ caused the Apostles to breake the breade to the multi∣tude
of the people, whom he fed with v. loaues, signifiynge the spirituall breakynge of the bread of the soule amonge the people euer to bee done by the ministers diligentlye: and that it should not be complayned vp∣on by the Prophet, sayinge: my children haue desired bread, and there was none to breake it to them: and likewise by Amos: there is a great hunger (sayeth he) not of lacke of bodily foode, but of hearinge the worde of God. And also by Esay, the no∣bles did perish for lacke of mete and the multitude for lacke of drinke. By these it maye well appeare that the common peo∣ple shoulde not presume to ex∣pounde ye scriptures thē selues, nor to be iudges therof: whiche
yet they wyll doe (as experience sheweth) yf they haue it in the vulgar tongue. Therfore away with it.
Greg. lib. i. moral.
Hierem. Thren. iiii.
Esay. v.