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On the Theophania
Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Lee, 1843
Who moreover persuaded women, multitudes of children, and of men, voluntarily to suffer …
Who moreover persuaded women, multitudes of children, and of men, voluntarily to suffer the privation of food and of wine for many days? to sleep on the earth? to have recourse to a hard and robust discipline, coupled with chastity? and made them exchange the food of the body, for those spiritual and rational provisions of the soul,—the one for the other,—which are obtained by the divine reading?