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For the dispute is not only about the day, but also about the very manner of the fast. Some think that they ought to fast one day, others two, others yet more; and others reckon their “day” as forty hours, both of day and of night. And such variety among those who observe it did not arise now, in our own time, but much earlier, in the days of those before us, who, as is likely, did not keep it with strict precision, and so handed on to later times a custom marked by simplicity and informality. And none the less did all these live in peace, and we are at peace with one another; and the disagreement over the fast confirms the concord of the faith. To this he also adds a narrative, which I will fittingly set forth, running in this manner: Among these, the elders before Soter who presided over the church which you now lead — I mean Anicetus and Pius, and Hyginus and Telesphorus and Xystus — neither themselves observed it, nor permitted those who came after them to do so; and yet, though they did not keep it, they none the less remained at peace with those who came to them from the dioceses where it was observed, although to observe it was the more contrary thing to those who did not. And never were any cast out on account of this practice; but the elders before you, though they did not keep it, used to send the Eucharist to those from the dioceses who did keep it. And when the blessed Polycarp visited Rome in the time of Anicetus, and they had some slight differences over certain other matters, they at once made peace, not contending with one another over this point. For neither could Anicetus persuade Polycarp not to observe it, since he had always observed it together with John the disciple of our Lord and the rest of the apostles with whom he had lived; nor again did Polycarp persuade Anicetus to observe it, who said that he was bound to hold fast the custom of the elders before him. And things being thus, they communed with one another; and in the church Anicetus yielded the Eucharist to Polycarp, evidently out of respect; and they parted from one another in peace, the whole church being at peace, both those who observed and those who did not.