Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Fifth

be on your guard against every evil word, and every evil desire, and purify your heart from all the vanities of this world. If you guard against these things, your fasting will be perfect. And you will do also as follows.[9]

Tertullian On Fasting

I think, moreover, that the apostle too, in the Second of Corinthians, among his labours, and perils, and hardships, after "hunger and thirst," enumerates "fasts" also "very many"[66]

Dionysius Extant Fragments Part I

On those, again, who pause and refresh themselves in the course as they are moved or as they are able, let us not press very hard:[158]

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