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unprofitable, it is dismissed; and in sum, it calls want the mother of health, so that even in this respect the counsel from it is not useless to us. Whether, therefore, we ever use the precepts of medicine, or decline them, according to one of the reasons already given, let the aim of pleasing God be preserved, and the benefit of the soul be administered, and the command of the Apostle be fulfilled, who said: Therefore, whether you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

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ἀσύμφορον, ἀποπέμπεται· καὶ τὸ σύμπαν, τὴν ἔνδειαν μητέρα τῆς ὑγείας ἀποκαλεῖ, ὥστε καὶ κατὰ τοῦτο οὐκ ἄχρηστος ἡμῖν ἡ παρ' αὐτῆς συμβουλή. Εἴτε οὖν χρώμεθά ποτε τοῖς τῆς ἰατρικῆς παραγγέλμασιν, εἴτε παραιτούμεθα, κατά τινα τῶν προαποδεδομένων λόγων, ὁ σκοπὸς τῆς πρὸς Θεὸν εὐαρεστήσεως σωζέσθω, καὶ ἡ ὠφέλεια τῆς ψυχῆς οἰκονομείσθω, καὶ τὸ πρόσταγμα τοῦ Ἀποστόλου πληρούσθω, εἰπόντος· Εἴτε οὖν ἐσθίετε, εἴτε πίνετε, εἴτε τι ποιεῖτε, πάντα εἰς δόξαν Θεοῦ ποιεῖτε.