“Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.”
They forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and have come to know the truth — the false teachers' asceticism (forbidding gamelia, requiring apechesthai) rejects God's good creation (ktisma theou). The proper response to God's gifts is eucharistia (thanksgiving), not rejection.
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