Monday, August 27, 2018

"A table without a remembrance of God is indistinguishable from a feeding-trough."

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Τράπεζα μὴ ἔχουσα μνήμην Θεοῦ, φάτνης ἀλόγων οὐδὲν διενήνοχεν.

     Leontius of Byzantium, Rerum sacrarum 2, On dinner (Περὶ δείπνου), PG 86, col. 2077B.  I was put onto this by Hermann Josef Sieben, "ΜΝΗΜΗ ΘΕΟΥ," Dictionnaire de spiritualité 10 (1980), 1412 (1407-1414).

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