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I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’
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Verse 12. See how the Pharisee here, by pride, lays open to the enemy his heart, which he had in vain shut against him by fasting and prayer. It is in vain to defend a city, if you leave the enemy a single passage, by which he may enter in. Saint Gregory mor. l. xix. chapter 12.
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