“By righteousness, I say, and by continence and by the rest of the virtues, God is worshiped. For Zechariah also tells us, saying, "If you eat or drink, is it not you that eat or drink?" declaring thereby that meat and drink do not pertain to God but to humankind: for neither is God fleshly, so as to be pleased with fl…”
Novatian, 3th c. — ON JEWISH FOODS 5
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6And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
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4Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,
5Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
— Zechariah 7:6 —
7Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?
8And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying,