The Treatises of Cyprian

In Isaiah: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. This sin shall not be remitted to you even until you die.” Also in Exodus: “And the people sate down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” Paul, in the first to the Corinthians: “Meat commends us not to God; neither if we eat shall we abound, nor if we eat not shall we want.”. And again: “When you come together to eat, wait one for another. If any is hungry, let him eat at home, that you may not come together for judgment.” Also to the Romans: “The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.” In the Gospel according to John: “I have meat which you know not of. My meat is, that I should do His will who sent me, and should finish His work.”