Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Commodianus/The Instructions of Commodianus/Chapter 75

LXXV.&#8212;To the Clerks.

They will assemble together at Easter, that day of ours most blessed; and let them rejoice, who ask for divine entertainments.&#160; Let what is sufficient be expended upon them, wine and food.&#160; Look back at the source whence these things may be told on your behalf.&#160; Ye are wanting in a gift to Christ, in moderate expenditure.&#160; Since ye yourselves do it not, in what manner can ye persuade the righteousness of the law to such people, even once in the year?&#160; Thus often blasphemy suggests to many concerning you.