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23. On Matthew. Matt. VI. II
On Matthew. Matt. VI. II12
For this reason we are enjoined to ask what is sufficient for the preservation of the substance of the body: not luxury, but food, which restores what the body loses, and prevents death by hunger; not tables to inflame and drive on to pleasures, nor such things as make the body wax wanton against the soul; but bread, and that, too, not for a great number of years, but what is sufficient for us to-day.
Notes
- De Magistris, Acta Martyrum Ostiens., p. 405.
- He is giving his opinion on the επιουσιον́, i.e., the “daily bread.”