Flesh Meats Produce an Irritable Disposition—God did not withhold meat from the Hebrews in the wilderness simply to show His authority, but for their good, that they might preserve physical and moral strength. He knew that the use of animal food strengthens the animal passions and enfeebles the intellect. He knew that the gratification of the appetite of the Hebrews for flesh meats would weaken their moral powers and induce such an irritable disposition that the vast army would become insubordinate, that they would lose the high sense of their moral obligations and refuse to be controlled by the wise laws of Jehovah.—Sanitarium Announcement, 6, 1876. (Temperance, 160.) {2MCP 618.1}

Kødspiser afføder et irritabelt temperament — Gud nægtede ikke hebræerne kød i ørkenen blot for at hævde sin autoritet, men fordi det var bedst for dem at undvære det, så de kunne bevare deres legemlige og åndelige styrke. Han vidste, at animalsk føde styrker de dyriske lidenskaber og svækker forstanden. Han vidste, at hvis hebræerne fik lov til at tilfredsstille deres begær efter kød, så ville deres moral blive nedbrudt og skabe et sådan irritabelt temperament, at den vældige hær ville blive opsætsig, og at de ville miste den fine sans for deres moralske forpligtelser og nægte at lade sig lede af Jehovas gode love. — Sanitarium Announcement, 6, 1876. (Helse og livsstil, 158.)