ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 6 v13

FOODS WILL COME TO NOTHING. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: We must restrain the belly and keep it under the control of heaven. God will finally bring to nothing all that is made for the belly, as the apostle says. CHRIST THE EDUCATOR 2.5.

PRETENDING THE BELLY IS GOD. NOVATIAN: One who worships God through food is almost like one who has God for his belly. JEWISH FOODS 5.9.

RULING THE BODY. AMBROSIASTER: The body, being dedicated to God, will be rewarded with a spiritual reward for the merit of its ruler, which is the rational soul. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

NOT AN ATTACK ON THE BODY. CHRYSOSTOM: Paul is not attacking the nature of the body but the unbridled license of the mind, which abuses the body. The body was not made for the purpose of fornication, nor was it created for gluttony. It was meant to have Christ as its head, so that it might follow him. We should be overcome with shame and horror-struck if we defile ourselves with such great evils, once we have been accounted worthy of the great honor of being members of him who sits on high. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 17.1.

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