{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">He says then to them again concerning these things,\r\n“Why do ye fast to me as on this day, saith the Lord, that\r\nyour voice should be heard with a cry? I have not chosen\r\nthis fast, saith the Lord, that a man should humble his soul.\r\nNor, though ye bend your neck like a ring, and put upon\r\nyou sackcloth and ashes, will ye call it an acceptable fast.”<a id=\"r477\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f477\"><sup>[477]</sup></a>\r\nTo us He saith, “Behold, this is the fast that I have chosen,\r\nsaith the Lord, not that a man should humble his soul, but\r\nthat he should loose every band of iniquity, untie the fastenings\r\nof harsh agreements, restore to liberty them that are\r\nbruised, tear in pieces every unjust engagement, feed the\r\nhungry with thy bread, clothe the naked when thou seest\r\nhim, bring the homeless into thy house, not despise the\r\nhumble if thou behold him, and not [turn away] from the\r\nmembers of thine own family. Then shall thy dawn break\r\nforth, and thy healing shall quickly spring up, and righteousness\r\nshall go forth before thee, and the glory of God shall\r\nencompass thee; and then thou shalt call, and God shall hear\r\nthee; whilst thou art yet speaking, He shall say, Behold, I\r\nam with thee; if thou take away from thee the chain\r\n[binding others], and the stretching forth of the hands<a id=\"r478\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f478\"><sup>[478]</sup></a> [to\r\nswear falsely], and words of murmuring, and give cheerfully\r\nthy bread to the hungry, and show compassion to the soul\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_105\">105</span>that has been humbled.”<a id=\"r479\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f479\"><sup>[479]</sup></a> To this end, therefore, brethren,\r\nHe is long-suffering, foreseeing how the people whom He has\r\nprepared shall with guilelessness believe in His Beloved. For\r\nHe revealed all these things to us beforehand, that we should\r\nnot rush forward as rash acceptors of their laws.<a id=\"r480\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f480\"><sup>[480]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS.","THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS.","Chap. iii.—The fasts of the Jews are not true fasts, nor acceptable to God."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-168"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7a23e1de452e4216ad008a97624e84bcacdbf7af5e3bcb8f56310759c22ec9e9","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ISA","chapter":58,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. lviii. 6-10","verse":6,"verse_end":10}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f479","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Historical 1870 English edition; electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f479","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f479\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r479\">479</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Isaiah\">Isa.</abbr> <abbr title=\"fifty-eight\">lviii.</abbr> 6-10.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f479","text_sha256":"e94591fb09ebf61a15fd37be4263462367e7c127ecdb35caacb53e172c2a952b","verified":false,"work_id":null}