When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:
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Jerome
AD 420
Holy writ warns us to partake of the feast prudently when we have been invited to dine at the table of a rich man. I might say that a rich man’s table of Scripture has been laid before us. We enter a meadow filled with flowers; here the rose blushes; there the lilies glisten white; everywhere flowers abound in all varieties. Homilies on the Psalms (Psalm ).