On the Jewish Meats
Novatian of Rome
Chapter 1
About this work
A letter-like treatise interpreting biblical food laws spiritually and arguing that Christians are called to moral restraint rather than observance of Israel’s dietary distinctions of the old covenant.
- Author
- Novatian of Rome
- Traditional attribution
- Tertullian or Cyprian (in earlier transmission)
- Date
- c. AD 250
- Origin
- Rome
- Genre
- Theological Treatise
Chapter I. Argument.—Novatian, a Roman Presbyter, During His Retirement at the Time of the Decian Persecution, Being Urged by Various Letters from His Brethren, Had Written Two Earlier Epistles Against the Jews on the Subjects of Circumcision and the Sabbath, and Now Writes the Present One on the Jewish Meats.
Although, most holy brethren, the day