Is not this the fast that I have chosen? — Fasting is right and proper; but that which God approves will prompt, and will be follow…

To loose the bands of wickedness. —The words do not exclude abstinence from food as an act of discipline and victory over self-ind…

Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and…

Is not this the fast which I have chosen? The Prophet shows what the real duties of piety are, and what God chiefly recommends to us: name…

Is not this the fast that I have chosen ?
&c.] Which God has appointed, he approves of, and is well pleasing in his …

A fast is a day to afflict the soul; if it does not expre true sorrow for sin, and does not promote the putting away of sin, it is not a fast. Thes…

1. Cry, do not cease. Here he excludes a usele remedy by which they wished to prepare themselves for salvation.

2. Firs…