“For the number "forty days" is composed of four groups of ten. This may be akin to the four aspects of physical reality, because the sensible world is formed out of four elements. Or it may be because a human being is formed in forty days in the womb. And so that he might not, by fasting any longer than this, give any…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — FRAGMENT 61.12
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2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
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1Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
— Matthew 4:2 —
3And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
4But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.