On the Jewish Meats
Novatian of Rome
Chapter 6
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 VI. Argument.—But, on the Ground that Liberty in Meats is Granted to Us, There is No Permission of Luxury, There is No Taking Away of Continence and Fasting: for These Things Greatly Become the Faithful,—To Wit, that They Should Pray to God, and Give Him Thanks, Not Only by Day, But by Night.
But from the fact that liberty of meats