Note 232 — Lecture VI. GREEK AND CHRISTIAN ETHICS.
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“How am I to eat?” said a man to Epictetus: “So as to please God,” was the reply (Diss. 1. 13). The idea is further developed in Porphyry, who says: “God wants nothing” (281. 15): the God who is ἐπὶ πᾶσιν is ἄϋλος; hence all ἔνυλον is to Him ἀκάθαρτον, and should therefore not be offered to Him, not even the spoken word (163. 15).