OLD TESTAMENT

Daniel 1:12

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12

“Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink.

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Verse 12. Pulse. That is, pease, beans, and such like. Challoner.—S. Basil hence shews the advantages of fasting; and Catholics, who imitate Daniel, may expect the like reward in heaven: and the hope that such a pattern would not displease their dissenting brethren, but rather screen them from their profane sarcasms. Bible.

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