On Pascha · §1.70

From the lambs and the goats

And perhaps the gospel too knows the same difference, when the Savior feeds those who follow him not from like loaves but from different ones. For some of them he breaks five of wheat, and for others seven of barley — so that those who cannot partake of Christ as of a purer wheat loaf, because they still live in a beastlike way and not yet rationally, may partake as of barley.

Greek

Τάχα δὲ καὶ τὸ εὐαγ[γέ]λιον τὴν αὐτὴν διαφορὰν οἶδεν, ὅταν ὁ σ(ωτ)ὴρ τοὺς ἀκολουθοῦντας αὐτῷ χορτάζῃ οὐκ ἐξ ἄρτων ὁμοίων ἀλλὰ διαφόρων· τοῖς μὲν γὰρ αὐτῶν σιτίνους κατακλᾷ πέντε, τοῖς δὲ κριθίνους ἑπτά, ἵνα ὅσοι οὐ δύ||νανται ὡς ἄρτου καθαρωτέρου καὶ σιτίνου μεταλαβεῖν τοῦ X(ριστο)ῦ διὰ τὸ κτηνῶδες καὶ μήπω λογικῶς ἀναστρέφεσθαι μεταλάβωσιν ὡς κριθίνου.