Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 11 — Of the measure of the chastisement to be undertaken, and the remedy of fasting.
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 11
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The perfection then of abstinence is not to be gathered from calculations of time alone, nor only from the quality of the food; but beyond everything from the judgment of conscience. For each one should impose such a sparing diet on himself as the battle of his bodily struggle may require. The canonical observance of fasts is indeed valuable and by all means to be kept. But unless this is followed by a temperate partaking of food, one will not be able to arrive at the goal of perfection. For the abstinence of prolonged fasts--where repletion of body follows--produces weariness for a ti…
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