Bad intentions vitiate pious observances.
The sounding of trumpet is referred by some to an alleged custom of the parties themselves calling the poor together by a trumpet, or even to the noise of the coins on the trumpet-shaped chests in the temple. Acts iii., iv. Not our Father. It is wanting in the Sinaitic, B, D, etc., Mss., as also in the Vulgate copies. They love to stand praying, more than they love to pray.