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 1  2, 6   | authoritatively declared, "Not such a fast hath the Lord elected,"
 2  3, 2   |                if he had preferred to fast from one little tree: so
 3  6, 5   |              many nights maintained a fast above the power of human
 4  7, 1   |           they wash away the sin by a fast, that the peril of battle
 5  7, 2   |             the strength of them who "fast to God." For such, Heaven
 6  7, 4   |            sufficiently commended the fast, keeping it up in a space
 7  7, 5   |              his son), who was not to fast.~6.
 8  7, 6   |                       Thus a God-ward fast is a work of reverential
 9  9, 1   |              use of food is a partial fast. Let us therefore look into
10 10, 8   |               namely), that we are to fast till a late hour, awaiting
11 10, 12  |              been in ignorance of the fast having been appointed till
12 14, 3   |             day never to be kept as a fast except at the passover season,
13 15, 7   |  particularized in detail the kind of fast which He has not chosen: "
14 15, 7   |          stealthily sting; or else ye fast with a view to abuse and
15 15, 7   |            with the fists. Not such a fast have I elected;" but such
16 16, 3   |              penalty of his breach of fast. These will be warnings
17 16, 4   |         withal exclaimed: "Sanctify a fast, and a religious service;"
18 16, 6   |      suspension of business! A Jewish fast, at all events, is universally
19 concl, 5|          manfully to command, "Let us fast, brethren and sisters, lest