Mark 2:18

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And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they came and said unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples fast not?

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Basil the Great

AD 379

Take heed that you do not make fasting to consist only in abstinence from meats. True fasting is to refrain from vice. Shred to pieces all your unjust contracts. Pardon your neighbors. Forgive them their trespasses. Homily , On Fasting.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

See Matthew ix. 14, and Luke v. 33.

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

At all events, in the Gospel they think that those days were definitely appointed for fasts in which "the Bridegroom was taken away; "

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