Make satisfaction to God through fasting. You have been ordered to be sorrowful, not to indulge yourself. Cursed is the ground thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you. But repentance is futile without fasting. We have been injured by sin let us be healed by repentance. For those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. If Eve had fasted from the tree, we would not need this fasting now. You shall not eat legislates fasting and self-control. It was the first command that Adam received: You shall not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Fasting is as old as humanity: it was legislated in Paradise.
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