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Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 02 — CCEL UTF-8 text — [1361] [A plain reference to the use of the mixed cup in the Lord's supper.]

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Passage referenceAnte-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 02 — CCEL UTF-8 text — [1361] [A plain reference to the use of the mixed cup in the Lord's supper.]

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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 2

[1362] [If the temperate do well, he thinks, the abstinent do better; but nobody is temperate who does not often and habitually abstain.] [1363] [A very important principle; for, if wine be "the milk of age," the use of it in youth deprives age of any benefit from its sober use]. [1364] The exact derivation of acrothorakes is matter of doubt. But we have the authority of Aristotle and Erotian for believing that is was applied to those who were slightly drunk. Some regard the clause here as an interpolation. [1365] Ecclus. xxxi. 27. [1366] Pentheus in Euripides, Bacch., 918.

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