John Trapp on Matthew 15:34

Verse 34. Seven, and a few little fishes] Before, he had fed five thousand with fewer loaves. God can as easily maintain us with a little, as with more; witnesse Daniels pulie, and Eliah's cake on the coals, and cruse of water; Luthers herring, and Iunius his [illegible: 2 words]. 19. 6. one egge a day, when means was short with him, by reason of the civil wars in France, so that he could not hear from his friends. It is not by bread only that man liveth, but by the word of GodsMelch. Adam. in vita Lutheri. Iun. in vita sua. blessing, that maketh it nourishable. As if he break the staffe of bread, that is, his own blessing, which is the staffe whereon bread (that staffe of life) leaneth, it can neither feed nor fill, make men neither fuller, nor fatter.