Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume XI/John Cassian/Conferences of John Cassian, Part I/Conference II/Chapter 20

Chapter XX.

An objection on the ease of that abstinence in which a man is sustained by two biscuits.

this we gladly embraced, and answered that we should scarcely consider this limit as abstinence, as we could not possibly reach it entirely.