Leviticus 23:27 (WEB)
“However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall afflict yourselves and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.
Fathers and councils · 3
Jerome
“Under the law, in the seventh month after the blowing of trumpets and on the tenth day of the month, a fast was proclaimed for the whole Jewish people, and that soul was cut off from among his people which on that day preferred self-indulgence to self-denial.” — editor's note: Lev. xxiii. 27, 29.
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Tertullian
“…“Holy shall be to you the day, and ye shall vex your souls; and every soul which shall not have been vexed in that day shall be exterminated from his people.”” — editor's note: Lev. xvi. 29; xxiii. 26–29.
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Leo the Great
“We proclaim the holy Fast of the Seventh Month, dearly-beloved, for the exercise of common devotions, confidently inciting you with fatherly exhortations to make Christian by your observance that which was formerly Jewish.” — editor's note: The observances of the seventh month, especially of the Day of Atonement, will be found in Lev. xxiii. 26–44, and Numbers xxix.
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