Nilus of Ancyra→Callinicus|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To Callinicus the Goldsmith.
Neither the eating of the carcass of irrational beasts or of rational creatures, nor the marriage bed, nor a nocturnal emission, nor anything else of this kind, ever harms either a man or a woman. For faith in Christ has cleansed, and always cleanses, this [the believer] for those who are true believers; but to those who do not believe nothing is pure, for both their mind and their conscience are defiled, and all things appear to them abominable and unclean [cf. Titus 1:15].
Neither the eating of the carcass of irrational beasts or of rational creatures, nor the marriage bed, nor a nocturnal emission, nor anything else of this kind, ever harms either a man or a woman. For faith in Christ has cleansed, and always cleanses, this [the believer] for those who are true believers; but to those who do not believe nothing is pure, for both their mind and their conscience are defiled, and all things appear to them abominable and unclean [cf. Titus 1:15].
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