fasting, hypocrisy courts publicity. Through all this warning about ‘doing righteousness,’* the one emphatic phrase is—“to be seen of men.” The hypocrite’s prayer is addressed to a human audience rather than offered to the divine ear. It has reference mainly to outward appearance and transient impression. Hence publicity is an object; and in the synagogues where the crowds throng, at the street corners or crossways where all points of the compass are commanded at once, the hypocrites took their stand