When ye fast? — Our Lord does not enjoin either fasting, alms — deeds, or prayer: all these being duties which were before fully established in the Church of God. Disfigure — By the dust and ashes which they put upon their heads, as was usual at the times of solemn humiliation.
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Matthew 6:16
16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.