[1358] Matt. vi.11. [1359] 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. Footnotes: [1358] De Magistris, Acta Martyrum Ostiens., p. 405. [1359] He is giving his opinion on the epiousion, i.e., the "daily bread." |
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