...cleanse the outside of the cup, while I am within full of extortion and excess ? Matt, xxiii. 25. Shall I fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness ? Isa. Iviii. 4. Shall I, under pretence of long prayers, devour widows' houses ? Matt. xxiii. 14....

...observance of which obtained for them amongst men the reputation of superior sanctity. 3. They fasted for strife, and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness. Their fasts were too frequently 5» mere political observances—for political ends. To promote the...

...the poor — multiplying tasks — growing rich by the labor of their slaves at home. 3. They fasted for strife, and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness. Their fasts were too frequently - mere political observances — for political ends. To promote the...

...Isa- lviii. 3, 4. — Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness. (5) 1 Cor. xi. 20, 21. When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's...

...liii 'out for a \ Hcb. Ihc tuadltt of the ykf. * Heb. trote*. cK«k. 18.7. t Heb. -hall faHcr Ikte 4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness : || ye shall not fast as ye do tliis day, to make your voice to be heard on high. 5 Is it 'Mu-!ia...

...all to morality — leaving the heart untouched, the character unchanged. " Behold, saith the Lord, ye fast for strife, and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness, and to make your voice to be heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen ? a day for a man...

...takest no knowledge ? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness : ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. 4 Is it such a fast...

...theology ; and it might perhaps have been said, with equal justice, to the disputants on either side — " Ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness." Those of our denomination have propounded their sentiments, too much in the manner merely of defensive...

...in the mere outward ceremony. They even fasted, as the prophet Isaiah tells them chap. Iviii. 4, " for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness." They might bow the head like a bulrush ; they might spread sackcloth and ashes under them ; but this...

...Isa. Iviii. 3, 4. — Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness. (5) 1 Cor. xi. 20, 21. When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's...