Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 06 — Section 1400
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Work: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Volume 6
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 6
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5. At length we have arrived at the question of food, and are confronted by our third difficulty. "All things were created to serve for the use of mortal men." And as man, a rational animal, in a sense the owner and tenant of the world, is subject to God, and worships his Creator, so all things living were created either for the food of men, or for clothing, or for tilling the earth, or conveying the fruits thereof, or to be the companions of man, and hence, because they are man's [4718] helpers, they have their name jumenta. [4719] What is man,' says David, that thou art mindful of hi…
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