Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of them who believe and know the truth.
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Hippolytus of Rome
AD 235
You forbid marriage, the procreation of children, (and) the abstaining from meats which God has created for participation by the faithful, and those that know the truth.
, and each receives from these a sufficient portion. No one, however, tastes these before the priest utters a blessing,
