3:1
De cibo et potu. Cibus sit vilis et vespertinus monachorum, satie- tatem fugiens, et potus ebrietatem: ut et sustineat, et non noceat. Olera, legumina, farina aquis mixta, cum parvo panis paximatio, ne venter oneretur, et mens suffocetur. Etenim utilitati et usui tantum con- sulendum est, aeterna desiderantibus praemia; et ideo temperandus est ita usus, sicut temperandus est labor: quia haec est vera discretio, ut possibili- las spiritalis profectus cum abstinentia carnem ma- cerante retentetur. Si enim modum abstinentia ex- cesserit, vitium, non virtus erit: virtus enim multa sustinet bona et continet.
論飲食。修士的食物當是粗淡的，且在晚間取用，要避免飽足；他們的飲料當避免醉酒：好叫飲食既能維持身體，又不致有害。當是蔬菜、豆類、和水的麵粉，加上一小塊餅乾，免得肚腹受累、心思被窒息。因為渴慕永恆賞賜的人，只當為著有益與需用而籌備；因此飲食的取用當有節制，正如勞苦當有節制：因為這才是真實的分辨，就是要使屬靈長進的可能性與那克制肉體的節欲一同得以保持。因為節欲若過了度，便成為惡，而非美德：因為美德維持並包含許多美善之事。
On food and drink. Let the food of monks be plain and taken in the evening, avoiding satiety, and their drink avoiding drunkenness: so that it may both sustain and not harm. Let it be vegetables, pulse, flour mixed with water, with a small biscuit of bread, lest the belly be burdened and the mind choked. For provision is to be made only for usefulness and need, by those who long for eternal rewards; and therefore the use is to be tempered just as labor is to be tempered: for this is true discretion, that the possibility of spiritual progress be retained together with an abstinence that mortifies the flesh. For if abstinence exceeds measure, it will be a vice, not a virtue: for virtue sustains and contains many good things.
3:2
Ergo quotidie jejunandum est, sicut quotidie orandum est, quotidie laborandum, quotidieque est legendum.
所以，當天天禁食，正如當天天禱告、天天勞苦、天天誦讀。
Therefore one must fast daily, just as one must pray daily, labor daily, and read daily.