Moreover when you fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
He condemns not public fasts as prescribed to the people of God, (Judges xx. 26.; 2 Esdras ix.; Joel ii. 15.; John iii.) but fasting through vain glory, and for the esteem of men. (Bristow)