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1 Kings 21:27
And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
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Letter v. Prayer and Fasting.
... Again; when wicked Ahab sent a band of men to take him, he prayed, and fire came ...
he was doing, they advised him to spend his gained time in fasting and prayer. ...
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Letter cxxii. To Rusticus.
... children of Israel, ye who think deep counsel and wicked. ... me with all your heart,
and with fasting and with ... The ungodly king Ahab, who shed the blood of Naboth ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter cxxii to rusticus.htm

Letter cxlvii. To Sabinianus.
... the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from ... others used to attribute your
paleness to fasting, and to ... say of you what He said of Ahab: "Seest thou ...
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On Repentance and Remission of Sins, and Concerning the Adversary.
... before receiving grace committed fornication to be saved by repentance and fasting? ...
Ahab, too, the King of Samaria, became a most wicked idolater, an ...
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First Sunday in Lent
... the people fell away and became more wicked than before. ... Not, indeed, as if fasting,
watching and toiling are ... Elijah, who was accused by King Ahab of troubling ...
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Blessed are they that Mourn
... vexed with the unclean conversation of the wicked' (2 Peter ... Could not Ahab be content
to kill and take ... he usher it in with religion, and make fasting a preface ...
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Matt. xxvii. 11, 12
... abstaining from meats by a rule of fasting, have by ... a result cometh of the snares
of that wicked one, he ... For this, this caused Ahab's ruin; although he would ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily lxxxvi matt xxvii 11.htm

Demonstration vi. --Of Monks.
... Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, the wickedness of Ahab was increased ... not mock his brother
who is fasting, and him ... not speak in complaisance with a wicked man, nor ...
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On Friendship with the World
... God, and who, consequently "Lie in the wicked one ... this, and formed a connexion with
Ahab, what was ... in private prayer, in family duty, in fasting, in attending ...
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How the Bishop is to Treat the Innocent, the Guilty, and the ...
... and when thou hast afflicted them with fasting, give them ... king of Judah has done
all these wicked abominations in a ... and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I ...
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