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“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
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Verse 16. He condemns not public fasts as prescribed to the people of God, (Judith 20:26. 2 Esdras 9. Joel 2:15. John 3) but fasting through vain glory, and for the esteem of men. B.
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