Bible Question: What is Daniel fast ? Why sometimes people told me whether i am fast on food but allow water taken, or i fast on meat meant only intake vegetable or fast only certain meal like breakfast, lunch or dinner or certain timing i cannot intake any food? |
Bible Answer: Greetings Corin, Most likely you are referring to Daniel's mourning fast: Dan 10:2 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks. Dan 10:3 (ASV) "I ate no pleasant bread" - Margin, “bread of desires.” So the Hebrew. The meaning is, that he abstained from ordinary food, and partook of that only which was coarse and disagreeable. "Neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth" - That is, he lived on bread or vegetables. It is not to be inferred from this that Daniel ordinarily made use of wine, for it would seem from Dan. 1: that that was not his custom. What would appear from this passage would be, that he practiced on this occasion the most rigid abstinence. "Neither did I anoint myself" - The use of unguents (bathing) was common in the East, and Daniel here says that he abstained during these three weeks from what he ordinarily observed as promoting his personal comfort. He gave himself up to a course of life which would be expressive of deep grief. Nature prompts to this when the mind is overwhelmed with sorrow. Not only do we become indifferent to our food, but it requires an effort not to be indifferent to our dress, and to our personal appearance. (Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible) Note: parenthesis in the text above are mine for clarification. It is up to you how you will perform your duties during your fast. There is not set formula. eklektos |
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