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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 129: He Who Fasts Much But When He Eats Cannot Endure Common Food Which Course…
Times of fasting are not dictated by the wishes of the individual but by the needs of those who have embraced the religious life. So the Acts of the Apostles tell us and we learn from elect David.1 So if any man fasts in such fashion he is counted worthy of receiving power to fast. ‘For he is faithful that promised.”2
Notes
- See Ps. xxxv. 13 (?). “elect” is absent from some MSS.
- Heb. x. 23†.