Given by: Judith, in the tent of the Assyrian general Holofernes, who offered her his own rich food. Given to: Holofernes — and, by her example, to every believer surrounded by pressure to conform.

To share a great man's table was to come under his patronage and favour; Judith's refusal of his food quietly refuses his claim over her, keeping her allegiance to God alone — echoing Daniel's refusal of the king's food.

And Judith answered him and said: Now I cannot eat of these things which thou commandest to be given me, lest sin come upon me: but I will eat of the things which I have brought.

Keep faith's boundaries even at a powerful man's table, refusing what would defile rather than sin to please him.

Judith 12:2

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