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Pseudo-Chrysostom, on Matt 6:17
Matt 6:17 · Douay-Rheims
“But thou, when thou fastest anoint thy head, and wash thy face;”
On this verse:
“Also if He bade us not to be of sad countenance that we might not seem to men to fast, yet if anointing of the head and washing of the face are always observed in fasting, they will become tokens of fasting.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.