The sources of De ieiunio adversus psychicos

1. Epistle to the Galatians Paul 1 neutral · 1 extended 2 citations

   ch. 1 2 passages anchored here

   The comparison to the Galatians reflects a Pauline reference used by the opponents.

   So too they say that we, like the Galatians, are smitten as observers of days and months and years.

2. Book of Daniel Daniel 1 authority 1 citation · 3 passages

   ch. 1 3 passages anchored here

   The Book of Daniel is extensively and directly quoted/cited across three separate paragraphs as authoritative precedent.

   the tyrant's wise men are spared, God is glorified, Daniel is honoured—and one who afterward, too, was to bring God no smaller grace, in the first year of king Darius, when, from reconsidering the times foretold by Jeremiah, "he set his face to God in fastings and sackcloth and ashes.

3. Book of Isaiah Isaiah 1 authority 1 citation

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   Isaiah is named explicitly and quoted directly on the nature of the chosen fast.

   So Isaiah too did not deny that God had chosen a fast, but enumerated what kind He had not chosen.

4. Book of Joel Joel 1 authority 1 citation

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   Joel is named explicitly and his call to sanctify a fast is quoted.

   For Joel too cried out, "Sanctify a fast and a treatment," foreseeing even then that other apostles and prophets too would sanctify a fast and proclaim offices that treat God.

5. Book of Jonah 1 authority 1 citation

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   The Nineveh fasting narrative from Jonah is directly recounted as precedent.

   Through this sequel of mourning and through abstinence, even that sinful city Nineveh is delivered from the destruction foretold.

6. Deuteronomy Moses 1 authority 1 citation

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   Deuteronomy is explicitly named and quoted regarding the warning against forgetting God through fullness.

   " And so in the same Deuteronomy, commanding that this same cause be guarded against, He says:

7. Epistle to the Romans Paul the Apostle 1 authority 1 citation

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   Explicitly invoked as 'writing to the Romans' with direct quotation used to support the argument on diet.

   "For," he says, "the kingdom of God is not eating or drinking";

8. Genesis Moses 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

   ch. 1 2 passages anchored here

   Genesis narratives (Adam, Noah) are directly quoted and referenced as authoritative source material.

   " For in the beginning indeed He had assigned to man only the food of herbs and trees:

9. Leviticus Moses 1 authority 1 citation

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   Explicitly cited as the source of the day-of-atonement fasting command.

   For as regards fasting, they set against us the days fixed by God, as when in Leviticus the Lord enjoins upon Moses the tenth day of the seventh month, the day of atonement:

10. Second Epistle to the Corinthians Paul 1 authority 1 citation

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    Paul's second epistle to the Corinthians is directly cited as source for his account of frequent fasting.

    And I think the Apostle too in the second to the Corinthians, among his labours and perils and discomforts, after hunger and thirst, reckons "many fastings" as well.

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

ch. 1 21 sources

Acts of the Apostles (Cornelius) · Books of Kings · First Epistle to Timothy / Pauline epistles on food · Gospel accounts of Christ's baptism and temptation · Gospel infancy narrative (Anna the prophetess) · Gospel of Luke / Acts of the Apostles · Isaiah (Book of) · Numbers/Exodus (wilderness narrative) · Pythagorean teaching · Teaching of Marcion · Teaching of Tatian · Teaching of the Lord (Gospel tradition) · narrative of 1 Kings (Ahab, Naboth, Elijah) · narrative of 1 Samuel (Mizpah, Hannah) · narrative of 2 Kings (Hezekiah, Sennacherib) · narrative of Exodus 32 (golden calf/forgetfulness) · narrative of Moses on Sinai / Elijah at Horeb · narrative of Numbers (Exodus 17, Amalek) and Joshua/1 Samuel (battle narratives) · prophecy attributed to Jeremiah · the Gospel · unknown (Psalmist)