Bible Dictionary: Fasting: should be to God

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Zechariah 7:5
Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did you at all fast to me, even to me?
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Matthew 6:18
That you appear not to men to fast, but to your Father which is in secret: and your Father, which sees in secret, shall reward you openly.
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Library

Whether Fasting is a Matter of Precept?
... 55) that "whereas God in His mercy wished our religion to be ... slavish burdens." Therefore
it seems that the Church should not have made fasting a matter of ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether fasting is a matter.htm

How Bishop Cedd, Having a Place for Building a Monastery Given Him ...
... that is, that the fruits of good works should spring up ... But the man of God, desiring
first to cleanse the ... stain of former crimes, by prayer and fasting, and so ...
/.../bede/bedes ecclesiastical history of england/chap xxiii how bishop cedd.htm

Whether the Times for the Church Fast are Fittingly Ascribed?
... the Law it was commanded that tithes should be paid of things, so we strive to pay
God a tithe ... ourselves for thirty-six days" (namely, the fasting days during ...
//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the times for the.htm

Christ is the Head of all Things Already Mentioned. It was Fitting ...
... man"for it belongs to a man to suffer hunger when fasting; and secondly ... in the law
that which is the duty of man, that he should not tempt God; and in ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter xxi christ is the head.htm

Fasting, and the Goat Sent Away, were Types of Christ.
... life, let us believe that the Son of God could not ... that whosoever did not keep the
fast should be put ... eat of the goat which is offered, with fasting, for all ...
/.../barnabas/the epistle of barnabas /chapter vii fasting and the goat.htm

On Lent, iv.
... enter on those mystic days which are dedicated to the benefits of fasting, let us ...
natures, the spirit which, if it is under the guidance of God, should be the ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings of leo the great/sermon xlii on lent iv.htm

The Teaching of Contemplative Life in Praying, Meditating, Fasting ...
... OF CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE IN PRAYING, MEDITATING, FASTING, AND WAKING ... and, all feigning
being cast out, it should not slacken ... and night to seek and know God's love. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/rolle/the fire of love/chapter ii the teaching of.htm

Matthew's Feast. Discourse on Fasting.
... of a physician, required him to visit the sin-sick.2. God himself commended ... of wine
should be served in appropriate succession; so, fasting should be observed ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/lvii matthews feast discourse on.htm

Whether the Works of Satisfaction are Suitably Enumerated?
... ourselves of some goods of fortune, and by fasting we retrench ... thereby we become
acceptable to God, but we should submit them entirely to God, which is ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the works of satisfaction.htm

Whether it was Becoming that Christ Should Lead an Austere Life in ...
... the holy apostles "understood that the kingdom of God does not ... But why should our
Lord, whose right by nature it is ... learn how great a good is fasting, and how ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether it was becoming that 2.htm