The Conferences, Conference 21
Why Fifty Days and Not Forty?
Why, then, do we relax the strictness of our abstinence at our meals all through the fifty days, when Christ stayed with his disciples for only forty days after his resurrection?
The Institutes, the Conferences and On the Incarnation
The Conferences, Conference 21
Why, then, do we relax the strictness of our abstinence at our meals all through the fifty days, when Christ stayed with his disciples for only forty days after his resurrection?