1 But again their scruples concerning meats, and their superstition relating to the sabbath and the vanity of their circumcision and the dissimulation of their fasting and new moons, I do [not] suppose you need to learn from me, are ridiculous and unworthy of any consideration. (DIO) 2 For of the things created by God for the use of man to receive some as created well, but to decline others as useless and superfluous, is not this impious? (DIO)
Epistle to Diognetus 4:1–2
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Epistle to Diognetus 3:2–4
2 The Jews then, so far as they abstain from the mode of worship described above, do well in claiming to reverence one God of the universe and to regard Him as Master; but so far as they offer Him this worship in methods similar to those already mentioned, they… (DIO)
4 Maccabees 5:7–9
7 For therefore, since nature has conferred upon you the most excellent flesh of this animal, do you loathe it? (WEB) 8 It seems senseless not to enjoy what is pleasant, yet not disgraceful; and from notions of sinfulness, to reject the gifts of nature. (WEB) 9 You will be actin… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 11:24–26
24 We six youths have destroyed your tyranny. (WEB) 25 For isn’t your inability to overrule our reasoning, and to compel us to eat the unclean, your destruction? (WEB) 26 Your fire is cold to us. Your racks are painless, and your violence harmless. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 5:24–26
24 It instructs us in justice, so that in all our dealings we give what is due. It teaches us piety, so that we properly worship the one and only God. (WEB) 25 That is why we don’t eat the unclean; for believing that the law was established by God, we are convinced that t… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 11:4–6
4 O you hater of virtue and of men, what have we done that you thus revel in our blood? (WEB) 5 Does it seem evil to you that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law? (WEB) 6 But this is worthy of honors, not torments, (WEB)
1 Corinthians 10:18–20
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Acts 16:20–22
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4 Maccabees 11:15–17
15 I was born and reared to the same end. We are bound to die also on behalf of the same cause. (WEB) 16 So if you think it is proper to torment us for not eating the unclean, then torment!” (WEB) 17 As he said this, they brought him to the wheel. (WEB)
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