1 Timothy 4:4

ὅτι πᾶν κτίσμα : This is the proof of the preceding statement, consisting of (a) a plain reference to Genesis 1:31, (b) a no less clear echo of our Lord's teaching, Mark 7:15 (Acts 10:15), also re-echoed in Romans 14:14; Titus 1:15.

λαμβανόμενον : This verb is used of taking food into one's hand before eating (in the accounts of the feeding of the multitudes, Matthew 14:19 = Mark 6:41; Matthew 15:36 = Mark 8:6, also Luke 24:30; Luke 24:43) as well as of eating and drinking. See reff. Perhaps it is not fanciful to note its special use in connexion with the Eucharist (1 Corinthians 11:23; Matthew 26:26 (bis) 27; Mark 14:22-23; Luke 22:19).

καὶ οὐδὲν ἀπόβλητον : The statement of Genesis 1:31 which is summed up in Every creature of God is good might be met by the objection that nevertheless certain kinds of food were, in point of fact, to be rejected by the express command of the Mosaic Law. St. Paul replies that thanksgiving disannuls the Law in each particular case. Nothing over which thanksgiving can be pronounced is any longer included in the category of things tabooed. It is evident, from the repetition of the condition, μετὰ εὐχαριστίας λαμβ., that St. Paul regarded that as the only restriction on Christian liberty in the use of God's creatures. Is it a thing of such a kind that I can, without incongruity, give thanks for it?

Field regards οὐδὲν ἀπόβλητον here as a proverbial adaptation of Homer's saying (Il. Γ. 65): οὔτοι ἀπόβλητʼ ἐστὶ θεῶν ἐρικυδέα δῶρα.

For κτίσμα see reff. κτίσις is found in Rom. (7), 2 Cor. (1), Gal. (1), Col. (2); but in these places creation is the best or a possible rendering. κτίσμα means unambiguously thing created.