Matthew 17:21 However, this kind goes not out but by prayer and fasting. It is not a mournful expression, a solemn dress, or a thin table, that God so much regards. It is the heart, and not the stomach, that He would have empty; and, therefore, if a man carries a luxurious soul in a pining body, or the aspiring mind of a Lucifer in the hanging head of a bulrush, he fasts only to upbraid his Maker, and to disgrace his religion, and to heighten his final reckoning, till he becomes ten times more the son of perdition than those who own their inward love of sin by the open undissembled enmities of a suitable behaviour. (R. South, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.WEB: But this kind doesn't go out except by prayer and fasting." |
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