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Title: Fasting
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Fasting

Passages

Old Testament
- Judges
  - Judges 20:26 | English Standard Version
- Nehemiah
  - Nehemiah 8–10 | Commentary on the Old Testament
- 2 Samuel
  - Fasting for Bereavement – 2 Samuel 12:21 | The New Manners and Customs of the Bible
- Isaiah
  - True Fasting is Love in Action – Isaiah 58:1–14 | The Bible Guide
- Zechariah
  - Fast and Feast – Nehemiah 8–10 | Commentary on the Old Testament
  - The Question of Fasting – Page 204 | Exploring the Old Testament
  - Zechariah 7–8 | Commentary on the Old Testament
  - Motives Behind Fasting – Zechariah 7:1–14 | The Bible Guide

New Testament
- Matthew
  - Fasting – Matthew 6:16–18 | The New Manners and Customs of the Bible
  - To Fast or Feast? – Matthew 8:1–9:34 | The Bible Guide
  - Giving, Praying and Fasting – Matthew 5:1–7:29 | The Bible Guide
- Luke
  - Semi-weekly Fasts – Luke 18:12 | The New Manners and Customs of the Bible

Book Chapters

The Four Great Fasts – Page 338 | The Temple: Its Ministry and Services as They Were at the Time of Jesus Christ
Other Fasts – Page 340 | The Temple: Its Ministry and Services as They Were at the Time of Jesus Christ
Fasting – Page 69 | The Training of the Twelve; or, Passages out of the Gospels, Exhibiting the Twelve Disciples of Jesus under Discipline for the Apostleship
The Word of God on a Fasting Day – Page 296 | The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church, Volume 4: The Age of the Reformation
Prayer and Fasting – Page 66 | The Didache: A Window on the Earliest Christians
Fasting & Praying – Didache (Teaching of the Twelve Apostles) 8 | The Apostolic Fathers in English
* The Question About Fasting – Page 439 | A Marginal Jew, Rethinking the Historical Jesus: Volume Two, Mentor, Message, and Miracles
Fasting & Backsliding – Page 295 | Only a Prayer Meeting: Forty Addresses at Metropolitan Tabernacle and Other Prayer-Meetings
The Fasting of Christ – Page 134 | Luther’s Church Postil: Gospels: Epiphany, Lent and Easter Sermons
Anyone for Fasting? Well, Yes – Page 66 | Fresh Ideas for Discipleship & Nurture
Of Fasting – Page 307 | The History of the Puritans; or, Protestant Nonconformists (Volume 5)
Fasting – Page 307 | The History of the Puritans; or, Protestant Nonconformists (Volume 5)
Concerning the Public Solemn Fasting – Page 307 | The History of the Puritans; or, Protestant Nonconformists (Volume 5)
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THIS LIFE COMPREHENDED IN THREE PARTS,—FASTING, ALMSGIVING, AND PRAYER – Augustine, Concerning Man’s Perfection in Righteousness 8.18 | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 1.5: Saint Augustin: Anti-Pelagian Writings
Fasting – Page 98 | Notes and Questions on the Catholic Faith and Religion, the Notes and Answers Compiled Chiefly from the Works and in the Words of Dr. Pusey
THE FASTS OF THE JEWS ARE NOT TRUE FASTS, NOR ACCEPTABLE TO GOD – Epistle of Barnabas 3 | Ante-Nicene Fathers 1: The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
FASTING, AND THE GOAT SENT AWAY, WERE TYPES OF CHRIST – Epistle of Barnabas 7 | Ante-Nicene Fathers 1: The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
IN WHAT THE TRUE FASTING CONSISTS – Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 15 | Ante-Nicene Fathers 1: The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
FRAGMENTS FROM THE LOST WRITINGS OF IRENÆUS – Page 568 | Ante-Nicene Fathers 1: The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
Make your fasting a reality by amendment in your lives – Leo, Sermon 42.6 | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.12: Leo the Great, Gregory the Great
Let Us profit by fasting and good works at this sacred season of the year – Leo, Sermon 68.4 | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.12: Leo the Great, Gregory the Great
The First Conference of Abbot Theonas Chapter XXXV – Conferences 3.21.35 | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.11: Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lérins, John Cassian
Baptism Must be Preceded by Fasting – The Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions 7, 34 | Ante-Nicene Fathers 8: Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, the Clementina, Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First Ages
Of the Seasons for Fasting – Page 613 | Ante-Nicene Fathers 8: Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, the Clementina, Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First Ages
WHICH DAYS OF THE WEEK WE ARE TO FAST, AND WHICH NOT, AND FOR WHAT REASONS – Constitutiones Apostolorum 7.23 | Ante-Nicene Fathers 7: Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, Homily, and Liturgies
CONCERNING FASTING AND PRAYER (THE LORD’S PRAYER – Didache (Teaching of the Twelve Apostles) 8.1 | Ante-Nicene Fathers 7: Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, Homily, and Liturgies
ON FASTING IN OPPOSITION TO THE PSYCHICS – Tertullian, On Fasting in Opposition to the Psychics | Ante-Nicene Fathers 4: Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian, Part Fourth; Minucius Felix; Commodian; Origen, Parts First and Second
The use and purpose of fasting, private and public: principles to be guarded in it, 14–18 – Institutes of the Christian Religion IV, xii, 14 | Institutes of the Christian Religion
OF TRUE FASTING AND ITS REWARD: ALSO OF PURITY OF BODY – The Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude V, i | Ante-Nicene Fathers 2: Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria (Entire)
What Fasting Was Like in the Monastery – Volume 54, Page 339 | Luther’s Works, Volume 54
Fasting Was Made Easy By Gorging – Volume 54, Page 178 | Luther’s Works, Volume 54
Page 313 | Understanding Theology, Volume One

Journal Articles

Fasting – Volume 10, Number 1, Page 99 | Reformation and Revival Volume 10
* The Question and the Answer Concerning Fasting – Page 256 | Bibliotheca Sacra Volume 100
Why God’s People Should Fast – Volume 11, Number 4, Page 80 | Reformation and Revival Volume 11
The Practice of Fasting in the New Testament – Page 455 | Bibliotheca Sacra Volume 147
A Biblical Perspective on Fasting – Page 86 | Bibliotheca Sacra Volume 158
Day of Fasting and Prayer – Page 245 | The Sword and Trowel: 1866
Why Do Your Disciples Not Fast? – Page 155 | Semeia 16: Perspectives on Mark’s Gospel

Dictionary Entries

Fasting – Volume 1, Page 19 | The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised
Fasts And Fasting | The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Fasting | Baker Encyclopedia of Psychology and Counseling
Fasting | Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible
fasting, nature of | Dictionary of Bible Themes
Fasting | The Lexham Bible Dictionary
Prayer | Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments
Worship and Liturgy | Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments
Fasting | A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, Vols. I & II
Fasting | The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Volumes 1–3
Fasting – Volume 1, Page 6 | Dictionary of the Apostolic Church

Greek
- νηστεία | The Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament
- νηστεία | The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament

Sermons

A Fast Sermon – Page 297 | The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, Volume 15
A Fast Sermon – Page 315 | The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, Volume 15
Sad Fasts Changed to Glad Feasts – Page 133 | The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, Vol. XXXVIII
Sermon for a Day of Prayer and Fasting – Page 467 | The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church, Volume 4: The Age of the Reformation
Fasting – Page 262 | Princeton Sermons
Fast-day Service – Page 373 | The New Park Street Pulpit Sermons, Vol. III
Fast-day Service – October 6 | 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 1)

Quotes & Illustrations

Fast from Sinful Practices | 300 Quotations for Preachers from the Early Church
Fasting Weakens the Enemies of the Soul | 300 Quotations for Preachers from the Early Church
Fast from Evil Speech | 300 Quotations for Preachers from the Early Church
Fasting and Praying before Easter | 300 Quotations for Preachers from the Medieval Church
Power of Prayer and Fasting – Page 327 | Flashes of Thought
Fasting Must Be Connected to Something Else | 300 Quotations for Preachers from the Reformation
Fasting Is a Subordinate Aid to Worship | 300 Quotations for Preachers from the Reformation

Creeds and Confessions

The Second Helvetic Confession Chapter XXIV – Page 417 | The Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical Notes, Volume I: The History of Creeds

Misc.

A Hymn After Fasting – Prudentius, Cathemerina 8 | Prudentius, Volumes I & II

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Title: Fasting
Author: Michael T. Prince
Date: 2017 Sep 9 at 17:15