On the Jewish Meats
Novatian of Rome
Chapter 4
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 IV. Argument.—To These Things Also Was Added Another Reason for Prohibiting Many Kinds of Meats to the Jews; To Wit, for the Restraint of the Intemperance of the People, and that They Might Serve the One God.
To these considerations, then, thus enumerated,