Cassian's Conferences · II. Second Conference of Abbot Moses
Chapter XX
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An objection on the ease of that abstinence in which a man is sustained by two biscuits.
And this we gladly embraced, and answered that we should scarcely consider this limit as abstinence, as we could not possibly reach it entirely.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Volume 11, ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (1890–1900). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.