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On Matthew

Hippolytus

On Matthew.

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Author: Hippolytus

On Matthew.

Matt. vi. 11.

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

.