Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 60

60.&#160; That too great lust of food is not to be desired.

In Isaiah: &#8220;Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die. This sin shall not be remitted to you even until ye die.&#8221; Also in Exodus: &#8220;And the people sate down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.&#8221; Paul, in the first to the Corinthians: &#8220;Meat commendeth us not to God; neither if we eat shall we abound, nor if we eat not shall we want.&#8221; And again: &#8220;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.&#8221; Also to the Romans:&#160; &#8220;The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.&#8221; In the Gospel according to John: &#8220;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.&#8221;