Lives of the Fathers: Sketches of Church History in Biography 2
Lives of the Fathers: Sketches of Church History in Biography 2
Farrar Frederic William
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14, 15 ; Mark ii. 18, 20; Luke v. 33, 35); and there the Fathers rightly saw that " the days when the bridegroom shall be taken from them " can only be applied to the Christian dispensation by a complete error of exegesis. In the Sermon on the Mount (Matt vi. 16, 1 8) our Lord is primarily alluding to the Jewish custom of his own day. The fact that the Pharisees and disciples of John fasted, while His disciples fasted not, is alone sufficient to prove that fasting was not meant to be permanent ...or excessive. " I fast twice in the week " was only the boast of the reprehended Pharisee. xvi MONASTICISM AND ASCETICISM 231 fatal to some, it also produced very mixed results upon society, and it must be feared that the evils it produced outweighed its benefits. Augustine admits that if some of the monks and nuns whom he had known were the best persons in the world, others were the worst. Let it be freely allowed that many holy souls embraced the " religious " life, and that by virtue of their holiness they conferred conspicuous blessings on the world, and conse- crated to the cause of God a splendid enthusiasm which won many victories over the forces of evil.
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