Test your servants, I beseech you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.
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Jerome
AD 420
His faith was so incredibly great that he not only promised he would be in good flesh by eating the humbler food, but he even set a time-limit. Therefore it was not a matter of temerity but of faith, for the sake of which he despised the sumptuous fare of the king.