ACC ~ Matthew 15 v32

UNWILLING TO SEND THEM AWAY HUNGRY

THEODORE OF HERACLEA: In this way, by his speech, Christ had so disposed their souls that they had even become self-forgetful and had taken no care to provide for food or other inevitable needs. They had not grown weary, even in the desert, of being with Christ. But Christ understood the weakness of our nature and that we require food for the health of our bodies. He makes preparation even for this, that it might be evident that he is concerned not only about our souls but about our bodies as well. For he himself is the Creator of both soul and body. He is not merely the Lord of one or the other, as the lunacies of the Manichaeans hold. [1] They teach different creators, one for the soul and another for the body. FRAGMENT 97. [2]

[1] In the complicated Manichaean mythology, the creation of the world occurred in several stages and was the work of beings different from the supreme God of creation in the Hebrew and Christian religions.

[2] MKGK 83.

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