Excerpt from The Sermon on the Mount: A Practical Exposition of St. Matthew Vi; 16-VII. 27 As usual, Jesus starts with the condemnation of the Jewish practice. It was the habit of the stricter among the Jews, especially of the Pharisees, not only to observe the stated legal and public fasts, but also to fast. Regularly all the year round on the second and fifth days of the week. And in thus fasting their conduct was regulated in a nicely graduated scale, according to the strictness of the self-denial required. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www. forgottenbooks. com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. | The Sermon on the Mount by J. G. Greenhough, Paperback | Indigo Chapters