When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

In the original Latin

Plenus venter facile de jejuniis disputat.

St. Jerome

395

★ 3.8

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395 Early Christianity

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St. Jerome

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Citation

Saint Jerome. Letter to Paulinus. c. 395, sect. 2.

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