* and were.
   This was another incontestable miracle--four thousand men,
   besides women and children, (Mt 15:28,) fed with seven loaves
   (or rather cakes) and a few small fishes!  Here there must
   have been a manifest creation of substance--for, they all ate,
   and were filled.

  19,20  Ps 107:8,9  145:16  Mt 16:10  Lu 1:53 
  Joh 6:11-13,27,32-35,47-58  Re 7:16,17 
 * they took.
  1Ki 17:14-16  2Ki 4:2-7,42-44