{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-7722","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":58,"chapter_to":58,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":5,"verse_to":5},"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>Jerome</b>: If you have fasted two or three days, do not think yourself better than others who do not fast. You fast and are angry; the other eats and wears a smiling face. You work off your irritation and hunger in quarrels. He uses food in moderation and gives God thanks.<br/><i>— LETTER 22.37</i></p><p><b>John Cassian</b>: You see then that fasting is certainly not considered by the Lord as a thing that is good in its own nature, because it becomes good and pleasing to God not by itself but by in conjunction with other works. Again, in light of surrounding circumstances it may be regarded as not merely vain but actually hateful, as the Lord says: \"When they fast, I will not hear their prayers.\"<br/><i>— CONFERENCE 21:14</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"00ffe19b817612a70b61b70e91073cabb6ddbe48a03249fa6e9aec78488998c9","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":7722,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"da9c7d441202ab4fcb758fff575251d0346141c02983463d65946364f10415f5","translator":null,"work":null}