And when you eat and when you drink, is it not you who eat and you who drink? — Conversely, now that after your return you feast fo…

The people are rebuked for the hypocritical, or merely formal, nature of their fasts. The prophet does not, even further on, give any direct answer…

If a holy feast is not kept with a view to God, it is not kept at all.

It is a feast to yourselves. You have missed the mark altogether.

Here the Prophet tells us that he was sent to the people and to the priests, not so much to teach the messengers who came from distant lands, as to…

And when you did eat, and when you did drink

Either at common meals, or at their festivals: did you no…

If we truly desire to know the will of God in doubtful matters, we must not only consult his word and ministers, but also seek his direction throug…