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Mat 6:16. Ὅταν νηστεύητε, when ye fast) Fasting also ought to be of great account with us; it is not a part of the ceremonial law.-ἀφανίζουσι, they disfigure) By neglecting the daily attention to the person of washing and anointing. An exquisite oxymoron, ἀφανίζουσι, φανῶσι.[269]
[269] i.e. a play upon these words, ἀφανίζω being the privative transitive formed from φανῶ, to appear.-(I. B.)