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   :   
   began at this point. For after His baptism the Spirit led Him into the   
   wilderness and He fasted for forty days and forty nights. Likewise all who   
   set out to follow in His footsteps make the beginning of their struggle   
   upon this foundation. For this is a weapon forged by God, and who shall   
   escape blame if he neglects it? And if the Lawgiver Himself fasts, who   
   among those who keep the law has no need of fasting? This is why the human   
   race knew no victory before fasting, and the devil had never experienced   
   defeat from our nature; but this weapon has made him powerless from the   
   outset."   
      
    St. Isaac the Syrian.   
      
   "And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to   
   enter the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be   
   cast into hell fire."  Mark 9:47   
      
   Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)