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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925

Rule 196: How Does a Man Eat and Drink to the Glory of God? (R. 57)

By remembering his Benefactor and having such a disposition of the soul, attested by the condition of his body, as not to eat carelessly but like one who has God observing him; and by having as the object of his eating, not the service of the belly for pleasure’s sake, but the doing of God’s work for strength to work according to the commandment of Christ.

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