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Chapter XX. An objection on the ease of that abstinence in which a man is sustained by two biscuits.

Works of St John Cassian (Institutes, Conferences, On the Incarnation) · Saint John Cassian

An objection on the ease of that abstinence in which a man is sustained by two biscuits.

Cassian 2.44.1

And this we gladly embraced, and answered that we should scarcely consider this limit as abstinence, as we could not possibly reach it entirely.

Cassian 2.44.2