Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Commodianus/The Instructions of Commodianus/Chapter 78

LXXVIII.&#8212;To the Pastors.

Thou who seekest to feed others, and hast prepared what thou couldest by assiduously feeding, hast done rightly.&#160; But still look after the poor man, who cannot feed thee again:&#160; then will thy table be approved by the one God.&#160; The Almighty has bidden such even especially to be fed.&#160; Consider, when thou feedest the sick, thou art also lending to the High One.&#160; In that thing the Lord has wished that you should stand before Him approved.