Bible Dictionary: Fasting: During Forty Days: Moses

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Deuteronomy 9:9,18
When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
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Whether Christ's Temptation Should have Taken Place after his Fast ...
... shouldst give thyself up, not to luxury, but to fasting; for this ... He was in the desert
forty days and forty nights," and that He fasted during that time ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether christs temptation should have.htm

The Author's views Respecting the Celebration of Easter, Baptism ...
... the seventh week before Easter, and fasting three five ... yet call that time The forty
days' fast.' It ... had children by their lawful wives, during their episcopate ...
/.../chapter xxii the authors views respecting.htm

Whether the Times for the Church Fast are Fittingly Ascribed?
... for thirty-six days" (namely, the fasting days during the six ... we make use of things,
we have the number forty. ... Ember days is composed of three days, on account ...
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John Chapter iv. 18-Jan
... He appeared in the middle, between Moses and Elias ... the world, which is perfect fasting:
"That, denying ... on earth with His disciples during forty days after His ...
/.../augustine/homilies on the gospel of john/tractate xvii john chapter iv.htm

On Feast Days and Fast Days.
... for both Moses and Elijah fasted forty days, and Daniel ... David says: "My knees are
weak through fasting, and my ... the day of the resurrection, or during the time ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec iii on feast days and.htm

Whether it was Becoming that Christ Should Lead an Austere Life in ...
... the law, the product is the number forty: in which," consequently, "the time during
which we ... to the common manner of living, after fasting and (retiring ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether it was becoming that 2.htm

The Temptation of Christ
... taught hereby, that fasting is a Christian duty, yet, to pretend, in an ordinary
way, to imitate them, by fasting for so ... During these forty days, we may ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/the temptation of christ.htm

Upon Our Lord's SermonOn the Mount
... fasted, without intermission, "forty days and forty nights." But ... abstaining from
flesh and wine during such times as were set apart for fasting and abstinence ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 27 upon our lords.htm

The Temptation of Jesus
... During the whole forty days of Christ's ... As fasting occupies but a very subordinate,
we might almost say a tolerated, place in the teaching of Jesus; and ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter i the temptation of.htm

Acts i. 1, 2
... they had heard, and had passed forty days with Him ... immediately, but three days
intervened, during which he ... more elevated now, by being prepared through fasting. ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily i acts i 1.htm