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Book VII. Concerning the Christian Life, and the Eucharist, and the Initiation into Christ.

XX. That We Ought Not to Despise Any of the Sorts of Food that are Set Before Us, But Gratefully and Orderly to Partake of Them.

Now concerning the several sorts of food, the Lord says to thee, "Ye shall eat the good things of the earth;"1 and, "All sorts of flesh shall ye eat, as the green herb;"2 but, "Thou shalt pour out the blood."3 For "not those things that go into the mouth, but those that come out of it, defile a man;"4 I mean blasphemies, evil-speaking, and if there be any other thing of the like nature.5 But "do thou eat the fat of the land with righteousness."6 For "if there be anything pleasant, it is His; and if there be anything good, it is His. Wheat for the young men, and wine to cheer the maids." For "who shall eat or who shall drink without Him?"7 Wise Ezra8 does also admonish thee and say: "Go your way, and eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and be not sorrowful."9

  1. Isa. i. 19 ↩

  2. Gen. ix. 3 ↩

  3. Deut. xv. 23 ↩

  4. Matt. xv. 11 ↩

  5. Mark vii. 22 ↩

  6. Zech. ix. 17 ↩

  7. Eccles. ii. 25, LXX. ↩

  8. The words from "Wise Ezra" to "sorrowful" are not in one V. ms. ↩

  9. Neh. viii. 10. ↩

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