for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.
The Spirit speaks expressly of a general apostasy coming in the latter days: some will depart from the faith delivered once to the saints, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons. Not all will fall away, for God will keep a remnant according to the election of grace, but the mystery of iniquity now works, and the apostasy is already begun.
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Commenting on 1 Timothy 4:1-5
He who properly uses God's benefits acknowledges the Giver by His word and calls upon Him in prayer. We confess that God made all creatures, that through Christ we have recovered the dominion Adam lost, and we crave grace to use them with a good conscience.
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By the word of God, nothing is common or unclean for food; by prayer spoken before and after eating, we ask blessing on what we receive. Thus prayer sanctifies every creature of God and gives us free use of them all, as our Lord Jesus Christ Himself did at meals.
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