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Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
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Verse 5. Circle. They affected extreme debility. Matthew 6:16. Calmet.—Ashes. These external marks of penance are not condemned, but the want of corresponding sentiments. Bible.—Prot. would hence infer that fasting from flesh is not requisite, or a religious worship. But S. Jerom shews the contrary, provided it be joined with the observance of other commandments, as the saints and Christ himself have shewn us.
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