Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Jeremiah 29:21

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 106, footnote 3 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 1582 (In-Text, Margin)

... “it is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine”) but of vegetables as well. Everything provocative or indigestible is to be refused. Be assured that nothing is so good for young Christians as the eating of herbs. Accordingly in another place he says: “another who is weak eateth herbs.” Thus the heat of the body must be tempered with cold food. Daniel and the three children lived on pulse. They were still boys and had not come yet to that frying-pan on which the King of Babylon fried the elders[Jeremiah 29:20-23] who were judges. Moreover, by an express privilege of God’s own giving their bodily condition was improved by their regimen. We do not expect that it will be so with us, but we look for increased vigour of soul which becomes stronger as the flesh ...