60. That too great lust of food is not to be desired.
In Isaiah: “Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die. This sin shall not be remitted to you even until ye die.”4495 Also in Exodus: “And the people sate down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”4496 Paul, in the first to the Corinthians: “Meat commendeth us not to God; neither if we eat shall we abound, nor if we eat not shall we want.”4497 And again: “When ye come together to eat, wait one for another. If any is hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together for judgment.”4498 Also to the Romans: “The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”4499 In the Gospel according to John: “I have meat which ye know not of. My meat is, that I should do His will who sent me, and should finish His work.”4500
Footnotes
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Isa. xxii. 13, 14.
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Ex. xxxii. 6.
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1 Cor. viii. 8.
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1 Cor. xi. 33.
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Rom. xiv. 17.
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John iv. 32, 34.