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Matthew 6:16-18
The Pulpit Commentary on Matthew 6:16-18
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commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Matthew 6:1-18Sermon on the mount: 4. Ostentatious religion. After indicating the righteousness which admits to the kingdom of heaven, our Lord proceeds to warn against a flaw that vitiates the goodness of many religious people, and…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Matthew 6:1-18The third part of the sermon: the danger of unreality. I. THE FIRST EXAMPLE: ALMSGIVING. 1. The spiritual estimate of actions. The Christian's righteousness must exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees. They did their…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Matthew 6:1-18The relation of our Lord and his disciples to the religion of the day (continued); vide Matthew 5:17, note. (b) Our Lord turns from cases which could be directly deduced from the Law to those which belonged only to reco…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Matthew 6:1-34EXPOSITIONJoseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryMatthew Henry on Matthew 6:16-18Religious fasting is a duty required of the disciples of Christ, but it is not so much a duty itself, as a means to dispose us for other duties. Fasting is the humbling of the soul, Ps 35:13; that is the inside of the d…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Sermon on the MountTHE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. We are here cautioned against hypocrisy in fasting, as before in almsgiving, and in prayer. I. It is here supposed that religious fasting is a duty required of the disciples of Christ, when God,…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Matthew 6:16-18Fasting. This is nowhere in the gospel enjoined as a duty. It is, like the profession of the Nazarite, left to individual freedom. The service of freedom is the service of love (cf. Luke 2:37; Acts 10:30; Acts 13:3). Th…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Matthew 6:16The moral influence of fasting. The three expressions of the religious life introduced here—almsgiving, prayer, and fasting—are not treated as duties which we are bound to fulfil, but as things to which we are inwardly…Joseph S. Exell and contributors