Bible Dictionary: Fasting of Hypocrites: Described

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Isaiah 58:4,5
Behold, you fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: you shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
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Upon Our Lord's SermonOn the Mount
... thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: For ... the preceding chapter our Lord has
described inward religion ... names almsgiving; of the former, prayer and fasting. ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 26 upon our lords.htm

The Prophet of the Highest.
... priests were hirelings; the Pharisees were hypocrites; the ruling ... The idea which
lies beneath the fasting and privation of ... that it can best be described in his ...
//christianbookshelf.org/meyer/john the baptist/iv the prophet of the.htm

First Sunday in Lent
... Such as these are described in the parable (Luke 14 ... should be injured by too much
fasting, watching and ... God, inasmuch as false teachers and hypocrites, with all ...
//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle sermons vol ii/first sunday in lent.htm

Mahometans.
... practice are, prayer, with washings, alms, fasting, pilgrimage to ... over the midst
of hell, and described to be ... is called al Howyat, to the hypocrites, or those ...
//christianbookshelf.org/hayward/the book of religions/mahometans.htm

Regeneration by Faith. Of Repentance.
... forth fruits meet for repentance, described a course of ... the preposterous attempts
of hypocrites, who zealously ... frequent mention of sackcloth, fasting, and tears ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 3 regeneration by faith.htm

The Land and the People.
... During his forty days of fasting "in the wilderness ... and workingmen of Galilee, who
are described to us as ... How he arraigned those hypocrites seated on Moses' seat ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/section 17 the land and.htm

Matt. xv. 21, 22
... But having described both her calamity, and the intensity of ... power not to send them
away fasting; of one ... therefore He also calls them hypocrites, because in ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily lii matt xv 21.htm

V. ...
... For hitherto he has described what it is to preach the ... The hypocrites who rest on
their own works, and hence ... but that only can be called true fasting, when we ...
/.../the epistles of st peter and st jude preached and explained/chapter i v .htm

Second Sunday after Epiphany
... we are continually familiar, God has described the law of ... work, such as praying,
reading, fasting, giving, serving ... children of the devil, hypocrites, blind dolts ...
/.../luther/epistle sermons vol ii/second sunday after epiphany.htm

Book ii. Jerome Answers the Second, Third, and Fourth Propositions ...
... And this is why Lazarus after his resurrection is [4827] described as being at ... but
as we prefer virginity to marriage, so do we esteem fasting and spirituality ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/book ii jerome answers the.htm