The Living Spring and the Sower
You drink, not you who have gone seventy years without fasting, those whom the Lord spoke; these are the ones of whom I prophesied, for so it has happened.
By the way of the Savior casting, providing, and what he does with his hand, he says in that place: 'there is a spring of water' (John 4:14), which is in him living, by the action of the Holy Spirit, you will drink, those in the thirst of desire. The sower went out to sow (Mark 4:3), and what he had spoken came forth; he went out from fasting and on the seventh days, namely those, it is to be observed.
I fast twice of the Sabbath; the Jews do not fast especially when in the tenth of the Sabbath and the so-called souls of the tenth of the […]
As, then, it is salutary to abstain from the flesh of the dragon — and the flesh of the dragon is godless doctrines and false opinions — so it is beneficial and choiceworthy to refuse and flee 'the grape gathered from the vine of Sodom' and the wine gathered from it, being 'the fury of dragons and the incurable fury of asps' (Deuteronomy 32:32-33). One must pursue the fast thus accomplished and lament in kinship with it, mourning and beating oneself. But to be refused and very harmful is the fast which those accomplish who turn away from the use of the bread of life and the flesh of Jesus, which is bread of life, bread of truth come down from heaven, from which to abstain, being food of life, is in no way fitting. Concerning this twofold fast it was sown in the divinely inspired scripture: for concerning the praiseworthy, it is commanded in Joel the prophet: 'Sanctify a fast, proclaim healing' (Joel 1:14); and elsewhere it is announced: 'Fasting with prayer and almsgiving delivers from death' (Tobit 12:8-9). But concerning the blameworthy, base and impious men accusing God say: 'Why did we fast and you did not see? We humbled our souls and you did not know?' (Isaiah 58:3). To whom, whom they impiously accuse, he says: 'I did not choose this fast' (Isaiah 58:5) — but rather the abstinence from poisonous foods done with good works: 'For break,' he says, 'your bread to the hungry; if you see […]'
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ὑμεῖς ····························· πίνητε, οὐχ ὑμ̣εῖς ····························· ἑβδομήκοντα ἔτη μὴ νηστείαν ································· οὓς ἐλάλησεν Κύριος ·································· οὗτοι δ' εἰσὶν η······································· ‹2.110› ας προφητευσα································ τῶν αὐτούς, ε̣··································· οὕτω γὰρ καὶ ·································· γέγονεν. Παρὰ ·································· ὅνπερ γὰρ τρόπον ································ ‹2.111› βάλλων, χορη̣······························· καὶ ἃ πραττω········································ χειρὶ προσαπ······································· ὁ Σωτὴρ εἶπεν· ···························· ἐν αὐτῷ πηγὴν ὕδ̣ατος ································ ‹2.112› τόπῳ φησίν ···································· αὐτὸν καθ············································ μου ζῶντος̣ ······································ ἐστιν τῇ πράξει ···································· ὑπὸ τοῦ ἁγίου ···································· ‹2.113› μεθύσου, θα································ ται ἐν τῇ τοῦ ···································· θων πεπληρ̣································· ἐπιθυμιῶν κρε····································· ‹2.114› ··································ˉηˉρ συμπνιγούσας ································· τὴν ῥηθεῖσαν ὑπ' αὐτοῦ ··························· ἐξῆλθεν ὁ σπείρων τοῦ σπεῖραι ························ ἐκ τοῦ νηστεύειν καὶ ································ ἑβδόμαις, ἤτοι τοῦ ‹2.115› ································ται, θεωρητέον. ································ νηστ̣εύω δὶς τοῦ σαββάτου ·································ιτης καταπαυ····································· Ἰουδαῖοι νηστευ········································α μὴ περὶ τῶν ‹2.116› ································ μάλιστα ὅτ' ἐν τοῖς ······································· δεκάτη τοῦ σαββάτου ·································υν καὶ ἡ καλουμένη ···································ας ψυχὰς ἑαυ····································· δεκάτη τοῦ ε2.117 ································· δυνατὸν πεμ······································ κόπτεσθαι ································· προκείμενος λόγος ································· τροφῆς ὄντος ········································ ἀρίστης τροφῆς ‹2.118› ···································βρῶσιν τὴν ············································μενος τῶν ·········································· ἄνηρ τρεφε······································· που λέγει πρὸς ············································ντος, ἐδω······························· ‹2.119› Τυγχάνουσι δὲ οὗτοι οἱ παραδοθέντες ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ πάθεσιν ἀτιμίας καὶ ἀδοκίμῳ νῷ διὰ τὸ σεσεβάσθαι τὴν κτίσιν παρὰ τὸν κτίσαντα, μεταλλάξαντες τὴν ἀλήθειαν τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ τὸν Θεὸν ἐν ἐπιγνώσει μὴ δοκιμάσαντες ἔχειν, ὥστε μὴ ποιεῖν τὰ καθήκοντα. ‹2.120› Ὥσπερ οὖν σωτηριῶδες τὸ ἀπέχεσθαι τῶν σαρκῶν τοῦ ‹2.120› δράκοντος–δόγματα δὲ ἄθεα καὶ ψευδοδοξίαι τυγχάνουσιν αἱ σάρκες τοῦ δράκοντος–οὕτως ἐπωφελὲς καὶ αἱρετὸν τὸ παραιτεῖσθαι καὶ φεύγειν «τὴν τρυγωμένην σταφυλὴν ἐξ ἀμπέλου Σοδόμων» καὶ τὸν ἐξ αὐτῆς τρυγώμενον οἶνον ὄντα «θυμὸν δρακόντων καὶ θυμὸν ἀσπίδων ἀνίατον». ‹2.121› Τὴν οὕτω τελουμένην νηστείαν μεταδιώκειν προσήκει καὶ κόπτεσθαι συγγενῶς αὐτῇ θρηνοῦντα καὶ κοπτόμενον. Παραιτητέα δὲ καὶ βλαβερὰ πάνυ ἐστὶν νηστεία ἣν ἐπιτελοῦσιν οἱ ἀποστρεφόμενοι τὴν χρῆσιν τοῦ ἄρτου τῆς ζωῆς καὶ τῶν σαρκῶν Ἰησοῦ αἵ εἰσιν ἄρτος ζωῆς, ἄρτος ἀληθείας ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καταβάς, ἧς ἀπέχεσθαι, τυγχανούσης βρώσεως ζωῆς, οὐδαμῶς προσήκει. ‹2.122› Περὶ τῆς διττῆς ταύτης νηστείας ἐπεσπάρη ἐν τῇ θεοπνεύστῳ γραφῇ· περὶ μὲν γὰρ τῆς ἐπαινετῆς ἐν Ἰωὴλ τῷ προφήτῃ προστάττεται· «Ἁγιάσατε νηστείαν, κηρύξατε θεραπείαν»· καὶ ἑτέρωθι ἀπαγγέλλεται· «Νηστεία μετὰ προσευχῆς καὶ ἐλεημοσύνης 53 ἐκ θανάτου ῥύεται.» Περὶ δὲ τῆς ψεκτῆς φαῦλοι καὶ ἀσεβεῖς ἄνδρες αἰτιώμενοι τὸν Θεόν φασιν· «Τί ὅτι ἐνηστεύσαμεν καὶ οὐκ εἶδες; ἐταπεινώσαμεν τὰς ψυχὰς ἡμῶν καὶ οὐκ ἔγνως;» ‹2.123› Πρὸς οὓς ὃν ἀσεβῶς αἰτιῶνταί φησιν· «Οὐ ταύτην τὴν νηστείαν ἐξελεξάμην», ἄλλ' ἢ τὴν ἀποχὴν οὖσαν δηλητηρίων τροφῶν σὺν ἔργοις ἀγαθοῖς γινομένην· «∆ιάθρυπτε γάρ, φησίν, πεινῶντι τὸν ἄρτον σου· ἐὰν ἴδῃς