Holy Scripture

1 Kings 13:19

A church father on this verse
“For even if God does prefer the works of righteousness, still, these works are not without sacrifice, which represents a soul afflicted with fasts. He, at all events, is the God to whom neither a people incontinent of appetite nor a priest nor a prophet was pleasing. To this day the "monuments of concupiscence" remain…”
Tertullian, 3th c. — ON FASTING 16

Source: Septuagint

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19And he brought him back, and he ate bread and drank water in his house.

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17For thus the Lord commanded me by word, saying, Eat not bread there, and drink not water, and return not thither by the way by which thou camest.

18And he said to him, I also am a prophet as thou art; and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back to thee into thy house, and let him eat bread and drink water: but he lied to him.

— 1 Kings 13:19 —

20And it came to pass while they were sitting at the table, that the word of the Lord came to the prophet that brought him back;

21and he spoke to the man of God that came out of Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast resisted the word of the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded thee,

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