After Feeding

Et dimissa turba, inquit, ascendit in naviculam... Quae non dimittitur, nisi satiata, et repleta. Tamen omnibus diebus vitae nostrae, nobiscum manet. Unde et signanter navem, quae est Ecclesia, ascendit, de qua et in qua credentium plebem ipse gubernat et regit, ne pasta deficiat inter fluctus, ne erudita oberret inter auras linguarum, ne vegetata frangatur longo itinere, ne etiam appulsa impellatur ventis, ne saeviente charybdi naufragetur turbinibus. Sanctus Paschasius Radbertus Corbeiensis, Expositio In Evangelium Matthaei, Liber VII Cap XV Source: Migne PL 120.550b-c

'And having dismissed the crowd, He went up into the boat...' 1 Which crowd is not dismissed, unless satisfied and filled. And yet He remains with us all the days of our life. Whence the ship to which He goes up into signifies the Church, by which and in which He guides and reigns over the faithful, lest among the waves they have no sustenence, lest understanding perish among the gusts of tongues, lest crops rot because of the long journey, lest they are overthrown by the blows of the winds, lest they are shipwrecked among the whirlpools of cruel Charybdis. Saint Paschasius Radbertus, Commentary On The Gospel of Saint Matthew, Book 7 Chap 15 1 Mt 15.39