Fasting and temptations

[Theopesta]

Dear All,

st. Jn. Chrysostom ON THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW HOMILY XIII.MATT. IV. I:

For not in his fast, but in his hunger he approaches Him; to instruct thee how great a good fasting is, and how it is a most powerful shield against the devil, and that after the font, men should give themselves up, not to luxury and drunkenness, and a full table, but to fasting. For, for this cause even He fasted, not as needing it Himself, but to instruct us. Thus, since our sins before the font were brought in by serving the belly

please I want to understand certain things from this paragraph:
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what the difference between the fasting and hunger, I think the most trancendence level in fasting is when we become hunger, and this make the tempter very weak in front of us, what st.Jn wants to say??

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after the font and before the font
what the mention by the word font?

many thanks, IN ONE CHRIST, Theopesta

[Theopesta]

from the same homily:

http://www.monachos.net/mb/clipart/triangle_right.gif {But Christ, to show that the virtuous man is not compelled even by this tyranny to do anything that is unseemly, first hungers, then submits not to what is enjoined Him; teaching us to obey the devil in nothing.}

http://www.monachos.net/mb/clipart/triangle_right.gif {"Man shall not live by bread alone." Now His meaning is like this: "God is able even by a word to nourish the hungry man;"}

http://www.monachos.net/mb/clipart/triangle_right.gif {whatever we suffer, never to fall away from our Lord}