Matthew 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered.… 1. Shall Christ fast for us and net we for ourselves? 2. Shall the Pharisees fast twice a week in hypocrisy, and we not once in our lives in sincerity? 3. Can we cheerfully take us for our bodily health to fasting, and will we do nothing for our soul's health? 4. Can worldly men, for a good market, fast from morning to evening, and can Christians be so careless as to dedicate no time to the exercising of fasting and prayer, to increase the gain of godliness? 5. Is not this a seasonable exhortation? hath not God sounded the trumpet to fasting? (Matthew 9:16.) When the bridegroom is taken away it is time to fast. (T. Taylor, D. D.)This was the true, the model fast. Fulness of bread, abundance of luxury, makes God's work impossible; but look to it that the fasting be not the substitute for, but the handmaid of, the devotion — not the end, but the means. (C. J. Vaughan, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.WEB: When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward. |
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