1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Matthew 6:16 | And when you fast, be not as the hypocrites, sad: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear fasting to men. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward. | He condemns not public fasts as prescribed to the people of God, (Judges 20:26.; 2 Esdras ix.; Joel 2:15.; John[Jonas?] iii.) but fasting through vain glory, and for the esteem of men. (Bristow) |