On Fasting

Tertullian

On Fasting
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing
Country
United States
Published
10 September 2010
Pages
38
ISBN
9781169191006

On Fasting

Tertullian

For even by this very fact, that He exempts from eating that flesh only the ‘soul’ of which is not out-shed through ‘blood, ’ it is manifest that He has conceded the use of all other flesh. To this we reply, that it was not suitable for man to be burdened with any further special law of abstinence, who so recently showed himself unable to tolerate so light an interdiction–of one single fruit, to wit; that, accordingly, having had the rein relaxed, he was to be strengthened by his very liberty; that equally after the deluge, in the reformation of the human race

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