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On Matthew.1358

Matt. vi. 11.1359

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.

Footnotes

  1. 1358

    De Magistris, Acta Martyrum Ostiens., p. 405.

  2. 1359

    He is giving his opinion on the ἐπιούσιον, i.e., the “daily bread.”