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forever,” and the retort brought forth by the Savior that “If I do not wash your feet, you have no part with me,” and of that one again replying that “not only my feet, but also my head,” but of the Lord saying again that 1.362 “He who has bathed once does not need to wash his head, but only his feet; for he is entirely clean.” He showed therefore that one must not use baptisms and useless customs and commandments of men and teachings, as also in the gospel, in harmony with the prophet, he says “This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.” For on what account did he find fault with the Pharisees and Scribes, who used baptisms with the fist for themselves and for pitchers and cups and the other things? And does he not completely declare that “to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man”? So that not only did he overturn their baptizing, but he also showed that washing hands is superfluous and that for one not wishing to wash his hands there is no harm. 22. And how will their folly concerning meat-eating not be immediately refuted? First, by the Lord eating the Passover of the Jews. Now the Passover of the Jews was a lamb and unleavened bread, the meat of a lamb roasted with fire being eaten; as also the disciples say to him, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?” and the Lord himself says, “Go into the city and you will find a man carrying a jar of water, and follow him where he goes and say to the master of the house, where is the guest room where I may keep the Passover with my disciples? And he will show you an upper room furnished; there make ready.” And again the Lord himself says, “With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you”; and he did not say simply Passover, but this Passover, so that no one might artfully twist it to his own suspicion. Passover 1.363 was, as I said, meat roasted with fire and the other things. But they, having done away with the sequence of the truth from themselves, changed the saying, which is clear to all from the connected words, and they made the disciples say, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover,” and him supposedly saying “I have not desired with desire to eat meat, this Passover, with you.” But how will their corruption not be detected, when the sequence cries out that the mu and the eta are added? For instead of saying “with desire I have desired,” they added the adverb “not.” But he truly said, “With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you”; but they, by writing in “meat,” deceived themselves, corrupting it and saying “I have not desired with desire to eat this Passover meat with you”; but it is clearly shown that he both celebrated the Passover and ate meat, as I said before. But they will also be refuted by the vision revealed to Saint Peter, by means of the sheet having in it all beasts and cattle and creeping things and birds, and a voice of the Lord saying, “Rise, kill, and eat”; and of Peter saying, “By no means, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has entered my mouth,” the Lord says, “What God has cleansed, you must not call common.” For the confirmation of the truth will be found in two ways. For if they say that the statement of Saint Peter has gone through all foods, when he says that “nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth,” so that even oxen and goats and sheep and birds are called common by him, they will immediately be refuted from his former way of life. For after marrying and having children and having a mother-in-law he met the Savior, being of Jewish origin. And Jews eat flesh, and meat-eating is not abominated 1.364 or forbidden among them. Therefore, since he had eaten from the beginning—even if we should say up until meeting the Savior—it will be shown that

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αἰῶνα», καὶ τὴν ἀνθυποφορὰν ὑπὸ τοῦ σωτῆρος ἐξενεχθῆναι ὅτι «ἐὰν μὴ νίψω σου τοὺς πόδας, οὐκ ἔχεις μέρος μετ' ἐμοῦ», κἀκείνου πάλιν ἀνταποκρινομένου ὅτι «οὐ μόνον τοὺς πόδας, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν κεφαλήν», τοῦ δὲ κυρίου πάλιν λέγοντος ὅτι 1.362 «ὁ λουσάμενος ἅπαξ οὐ χρείαν ἔχει τὴν κεφαλὴν νίψασθαι, εἰ μὴ τοὺς πόδας μόνον· ἔστιν γὰρ καθαρὸς ὅλος». ἔδειξεν οὖν ὅτι οὐ χρὴ βαπτισμοῖς χρῆσθαι καὶ ἔθεσιν ἀνωφελέσι καὶ ἐντάλμασιν ἀνθρώπων καὶ διδασκαλίαις, ὡς καὶ ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ συνῳδὰ τῷ προφήτῃ λέγει «ὁ λαὸς οὗτος τοῖς χείλεσί με τιμᾷ, ἡ δὲ καρδία αὐτῶν πόρρω ἀπέχει ἀπ' ἐμοῦ. μάτην δὲ σέβονταί με, διδάσκοντες διδασκαλίας, ἐντάλματα ἀνθρώπων». ἐπεὶ κατὰ ποίαν αἰτίαν ἐμέμφετο τοὺς Φαρισαίους καὶ Γραμματεῖς, τοὺς βαπτισμοῖς πυγμῇ χρωμένους ἑαυτῶν τε καὶ ξεστῶν καὶ ποτηρίων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων; καὶ τελείως ἀποφαίνεται ὅτι «τὸ ἀνίπτοις χερσὶν ἐσθίειν οὐ κοινοῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον»; ὥστε οὐ μόνον τὸ βαπτίζεσθαι τούτων ἀνέτρεψεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ νίψαι χεῖρας περιττὸν εἶναι ἔδειξε καὶ τῷ μὴ βουλομένῳ τὰς χεῖρας νίπτεσθαι μὴ εἶναι βλάβην. 22. Πῶς δὲ περὶ κρεοφαγίας οὐκ εὐθὺς ἡ αὐτῶν ἄνοια ἐλεγχθήσεται; πρῶτον μὲν τοῦ κυρίου ἐσθίοντος τὸ Πάσχα τῶν Ἰουδαίων. Πάσχα δὲ τῶν Ἰουδαίων πρόβατον ἦν καὶ ἄζυμα, κρέα προβάτου ὀπτὰ πυρὶ ἐσθιόμενα· ὡς καὶ οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτῷ λέγουσι «ποῦ θέλεις ἑτοιμάσωμέν σοι φαγεῖν τὸ Πάσχα;» καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ κύριος λέγει «ἀπέλθετε εἰς τὴν πόλιν καὶ εὑρήσετε ἄνθρωπον βαστάζοντα κεράμιον ὕδατος καὶ ἀκολουθήσατε αὐτῷ ὅπου ὑπάγει καὶ εἴπατε τῷ οἰκοδεσπότῃ, ποῦ ἐστι τὸ κατάλυμα ὅπου ποιήσω τὸ Πάσχα μετὰ τῶν μαθητῶν μου; καὶ δείξει ὑμῖν ὑπερῷον ἐστρωμένον· ἐκεῖ ἑτοιμάσατε». πάλιν δὲ αὐτὸς ὁ κύριος λέγει «ἐπιθυμίᾳ ἐπεθύμησα τοῦτο τὸ Πάσχα φαγεῖν μεθ' ὑμῶν»· καὶ οὐκ εἶπεν ἁπλῶς Πάσχα, ἀλλὰ τοῦτο τὸ Πάσχα, ἵνα μή τις μεθοδεύσῃ εἰς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ὑπόνοιαν. Πάσχα 1.363 δὲ ἦν, ὡς εἶπον, κρέα ὀπτὰ πυρὶ καὶ τὰ ἄλλα. αὐτοὶ δὲ ἀφανίσαντες ἀφ' ἑαυτῶν τὴν τῆς ἀληθείας ἀκολουθίαν ἤλλαξαν τὸ ῥητόν, ὅπερ ἐστὶ πᾶσι φανερὸν ἐκ τῶν συνεζευγμένων λέξεων, καὶ ἐποίησαν τοὺς μαθητὰς μὲν λέγοντας «ποῦ θέλεις ἑτοιμάσωμέν σοι τὸ Πάσχα φαγεῖν», καὶ αὐτὸν δῆθεν λέγοντα «μὴ ἐπιθυμίᾳ ἐπεθύμησα κρέας τοῦτο τὸ Πάσχα φαγεῖν μεθ' ὑμῶν». πόθεν δὲ οὐ φωραθήσεται ἡ αὐτῶν ῥᾳδιουργία, τῆς ἀκολουθίας κραζούσης ὅτι τὸ μῦ καὶ τὸ ἦτά ἐστι πρόσθετα; ἀντὶ τοῦ γὰρ εἰπεῖν «ἐπιθυμίᾳ ἐπεθύμησα» αὐτοὶ προσέθεντο τὸ «μή» ἐπίρρημα. αὐτὸς δὲ ἀληθῶς ἔλεγεν «ἐπιθυμίᾳ ἐπεθύμησα τοῦτο τὸ Πάσχα φαγεῖν μεθ' ὑμῶν»· αὐτοὶ δὲ ἐπιγράψαντες τὸ κρέας ἑαυτοὺς ἐπλάνησαν, ῥᾳδιουργήσαντες καὶ εἰπόντες «μὴ ἐπιθυμίᾳ ἐπεθύμησα τοῦτο τὸ Πάσχα κρέας φαγεῖν μεθ' ὑμῶν»· σαφῶς δὲ δείκνυται ὅτι καὶ Πάσχα ἐπετέλεσε καὶ κρέα βέβρωκεν, ὡς προεῖπον. ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὁράματος ἐλεγχθήσονται τοῦ ἀποκαλυφθέντος τῷ ἁγίῳ Πέτρῳ διὰ τῆς ὀθόνης τῆς ἐχούσης πάντα ἐν αὐτῇ θηρία τε καὶ κτήνη καὶ ἑρπετὰ καὶ πετεινὰ καὶ φωνῆς κυρίου λεγούσης «ἀναστὰς θῦσον καὶ φάγε»· καὶ τοῦ Πέτρου λέγοντος «μηδαμῶς, κύριε· οὐδὲν κοινὸν ἢ ἀκάθαρτον εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸ στόμα μου», φησὶν ὁ κύριος «ἃ ὁ θεὸς ἐκαθάρισε, σὺ μὴ κοίνου». εὑρεθήσεται γὰρ ἐκ δύο τρόπων τῆς ἀληθείας ἡ σύστασις. εἰ μὲν γὰρ ἐροῦσι κατὰ πάντων τῶν βρωμάτων διεξεληλυθέναι τὸν λόγον τοῦ ἁγίου Πέτρου λέγοντος ὅτι οὐδέποτε κοινὸν ἢ ἀκάθαρτον εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸ στόμα μου, ὡς καὶ βόας καὶ αἶγας καὶ πρόβατα καὶ ὄρνεις κοινὰ λέγεσθαι παρ' αὐτῷ, εὐθὺς ἐλεγχθήσονται ἐκ τῆς προτέρας αὐτοῦ ἀναστροφῆς. μετὰ γὰρ τὸ γῆμαι καὶ τέκνα κεκτῆσθαι καὶ πενθερὰν ἔχειν συνέτυχε τῷ σωτῆρι, ἐξ Ἰουδαίων ὁρμώμενος. Ἰουδαῖοι δὲ καὶ σάρκας ἐσθίουσι καὶ κρεοφαγία παρ' αὐτοῖς οὐκ ἐβδέ1.364 λυκται οὐδὲ ἀπηγόρευται. ἄρα γοῦν αὐτοῦ βεβρωκότος ἀπ' ἀρχῆς- εἰ καὶ ἕως τοῦ συναντῆσαι τῷ σωτῆρι εἴποιμεν-δειχθήσεται ὅτι