Therefore I pray you to take some food: for this is for your health: for there shall not a hair fall from the head of any of you.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
that you should eat, lest ye perish of hunger. Observe, his giving thanks after all that had happened strengthened them. For this showed an assured mind that they would be saved. (b) Then were they all of good cheer; and they also took some meat.