 2所以 ，你施捨 的时候 ，不可 在你 前面 吹号 ，象 那假冒为善的人 在会堂 里 和 街道 上 所行 的，故意要得人 的
荣耀 。我实在 告诉 你们 ，他们 已经得了 他们的赏赐 。 2 Verse 2. Therefore when thou
doest thine alms] In the first  verse the exhortation is
general: Take YE heed. In this verse the  address is pointed-and
THOU-man-woman-who readest-hearest.  Do not sound a trumpet] It
is very likely that this was  literally practised among the
Pharisees, who seemed to live on the  public esteem, and were
excessively self-righteous and vain.    under pretence of
collecting the poor; though with no other design      Jews who
begged alms might be furnished like the Persian   hypocrites
might be disposed to confine their alms-giving to those  that
they knew would pay them this honour." HARMER'S Observat.  vol.
i. p. 474.     when relieved. Hence some learned men have
thought that the word   chest, into which the money was dropped
which was allotted for   one end and grew gradually narrow
towards the other, were actually  termed shopheroth, trumpets,
by the rabbins; of this  Schoettgen fu