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Polemon

On Life According to Nature

Instructor: On Eating, Clement of Alexandria

[d. c215] Clement of Alexandria, "Prayers and Praise from a Pure Mind, Ceaselessly Offered, Far Better than Sacrifices," Book 7, ch. 6 in The Stromata, or Miscellanies in Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria Vol. 2 in Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325 edited by A. Roberts and J. Donaldson in 10 vols. (Print Basis: 1885-96 American reprint of the 1866-72 Edinburgh edition; Online at Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2004).

Polemon in his work On Life according to Nature, seems clearly to say that animal food is unwholesome, inasmuch as it has already been elaborated and assimilated to the souls of the irrational creatures. (Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, Prayers and Praise from a Pure Mind)