Fasting: The Didache on Fasting
Teaching on Fasting from Unknown: The Didache on Fasting
This is a spiritual discipline on fasting and early church, drawing on Matthew 6:16-18, Acts 13:2-3 and Isaiah 58:6.
The Didache, dating to the late first or early second century, provides one of the earliest Christian instructions on fasting: "Let not your fasts be with the hypocrites, for they fast on Mondays and Thursdays, but do you fast on Wednesdays and Fridays." This simple instruction reveals that fasting was a regular weekly practice in the earliest Christian communities, not reserved for special occasions.…
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