On Fasting and Feasts Kindle Locations 1293-1311. Then again, do not take the serpent as your advisor, who suggests that you eat out of regard for the flesh. Don’t you realize that Lazarus entered Paradise through fasting? Do not imitate the disobedience of Eve. It is because we did not fast that we were banished from Paradise. Now the manner of life in Paradise is an image of fasting, not only insofar as man, sharing the life of the angels, achieved likeness to them by being content with little, but also because those who lived in Paradise had still not dreamt up what humans later discovered through their inventiveness: there was still no drinking of wine, still no animal sacrifices, not to mention whatever else beclouds the human mind. Make satisfaction to God through fasting. You have been ordered to be sorrowful, not to indulge yourself. Cursed is the ground thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you.
But repentance is futile without fasting. We have been injured by sin let us be healed by repentance. For those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. If Eve had fasted from the tree, we would not need this fasting now. You shall not eat legislates fasting and self-control. It was the first command that Adam received: You shall not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Fasting is as old as humanity: it was legislated in Paradise.
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