Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume XI/John Cassian/The Twelve Books/Book V/Chapter 25

Chapter XXV.

Of the abstinence of one old man who took food six times so sparingly that he was still hungry.

one of the elders was pressing me to eat a little more as I was taking refreshment, and I said that I could not, he replied: &#8220;I have already laid my table six times for different brethren who had arrived, and, pressing each of them, I partook of food with him, and am still hungry, and do you, who now partake of refreshment for the first time, say that you cannot eat any more?&#8221;