The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus

St. Hippolytus of Rome · c. 200–235 AD

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Section 25

On Matthew

Matt. vi. 11.

For this reason we are enjoined to ask what is sufficient for the preservation of the substance of the body: not luxury, but food, which restores what the body loses, and prevents death by hunger; not tables to inflame and drive on to pleasures, nor such things as make the body wax wanton against the soul; but bread, and that, too, not for a great number of years, but what is sufficient for us to-day.