Bible Dictionary: The Daniel Fast

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Daniel 1:8-14
But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
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Daniel 10:3
I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.
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Matthew 6:16-18
Moreover when you fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men to fast. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.
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Library

Fast-Day Service
... Being the Day appointed by Proclamation for a Solemn Fast, Humiliation, and Prayer
before Almighty God: in order to obtain Pardon of our Sins, and ... DANIEL 9:1-19 ...
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Of a Private Fast.
... The outward actions are, to abstain, for the time that we fast"First, From all worldly ...
so far as health will permit (2 Samuel 3:35; Ezra 10:6; Daniel 10:3 ...
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On Feast Days and Fast Days.
... for it is reasonable to rejoice for the gift of God, and to fast after that relaxation:
for both Moses and Elijah fasted forty days, and Daniel for "three ...
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Further Examples from the Old Testament in Favour of Fasting.
... [1054] Thus a God-ward fast is a work of reverential awe: and by its means also
Hannah the wife of Elkanah making suit, barren as she ... Look at Daniel's example. ...
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Daniel's Band
... Daniel was early tested, and because he was a man greatly beloved of God, he stood ...
I must stand fast, even in the smallest matter, in keeping the law of the ...
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Daniel: a Pattern for Pleaders
... It is well when our prayers can fly fast, one after another, as we feel we are gaining
ground. ... The prayer of Daniel was a prayer of holy nearness. ...
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From Fasts Absolute Tertullian Comes to Partial Ones and ...
... For the exception of certain kinds from use of food is a partial fast. ... I return to
Daniel and his brethren, preferring as they did a diet of vegetables and the ...
/.../chapter ix from fasts absolute tertullian.htm

Faustus Repels the Insinuation that the Prophecy of Paul with ...
... distinction in food, Moses and the prophets established a divine ordinance, and
not a doctrine of devils; if Daniel in the Holy Spirit observed a fast of three ...
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On the Creation of the World
... And let the parasceve become a rigorous fast, lest we should appear to observe ... days
with which Pentecost is completed, the seven weeks in Daniel, [2231] also ...
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Of Stations, and of the Hours of Prayer.
... the son of Saul, although it had been in ignorance of the fast having been ... But withal
Daniel, in the first year of King Darius, when, fasting in sackcloth and ...
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