{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4667","native_reference":{"book_number":20,"chapter_from":34,"chapter_to":34,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":28,"verse_to":28},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: The forty-day fast of Lent draws its authority from the Old Testament, from the fasts of Moses and Elijah, and from the gospel, because the Lord fasted that many days, showing that the gospel is not at variance with the Law and the Prophets. The Law is personified by Moses, the Prophets by Elijah, between whom the Lord appeared transfigured on the mountain.<br/><i>— LETTER 55</i></p><p><b>Philoxenus of Mabbug</b>: And like this holy man the blessed Moses also was twice deemed worthy to go unto the thick darkness and to receive the law upon the tablets; and he was made pure by fasting like unto this, and then he was deemed worthy of the terrible sight.<br/><i>— 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 11 -- On Abstinence</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"14ff849151f149d94678b9ac0be71c77d91c6b7723f7dcb760c3de2c9557d5b5","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4667,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"b5f09eb5b95693d0a29643a5fe2c33e27659297d1afed3bdb16f4a648aa22354","translator":null,"work":null}