But food commends us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
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Clement Of Alexandria
AD 215
The natural use of food is then indifferent. "For neither if we eat are we the better "it is said, "nor if we eat not are we the worse.".
For it is not in the food of the belly, that we have heard good to be situated. But he has heard that "meat will not commend us"