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John Trapp on Matthew 14:20

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Matthew14:20

Verse 20. And were filled] So Davids cup over-flowed: hePsal. 23 [illegible: 1 word]. had not only a sufficience but an affluence. So, at the marriage of Cana, Christ gave them wine enough for 150 guests. Howbeit [illegible: 1 word]. 2. he hath not promised us superfluities. Having food and raiment,1 [illegible: 1 word] 6. let us be content. A little of the creature will serve to carry us through our pilgrimage. And they took up of the fragments] Thrift is a great revenue, [illegible: 4 words]. and good husbandry well pleasing to God, Prov. 27. 26, 27. so it degenerate not into niggardise. Twelve baskets full] If we consider what they ate, we may wonder they left any thing, as if, what they left, that they ate any thing.

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