{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2110398.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2110398.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2110398.htm","text":"Of the abstinence of one old man who took food six times so sparingly that he was still hungry.\nWhen 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: \u201cI 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?\u201d","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter XXV. Of the abstinence of one old man who took food six times so sparingly that he was still hungry.","type":"page"}