 | James Gardiner - 1720 - 448 sidor
...anfwer'd, that as the ceremonial law, to which the Jews were iubje&, was apparently troublefome and uneafy, a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear; it was very proper to recommend the Chriftian Law to them under the contrary character of eafinefs,... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1748 - 438 sidor
...law is frequently reprefented in die New Teftament as a ftate of" bondage and reftraint. It is called a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear; a fchool-mafter which kept men under a fevere awe and difcipline. It is reprefented as a prifon, and... | |
 | Benjamin Whichcote - 1751 - 418 sidor
...lay any fuch burdena upon believers, as were in the Jewijh ftate, for that is called, Atts xv. 10. A yoke which neither they nor their fathers -were able to- bear. Such things were impofed upon them, as had good* nefs only as they were warranted, and enjoined by... | |
 | Henry Grove - 1753 - 168 sidor
...appointed, and which rendered that fervice fo burdenfome, that an Apofile of Chrift fcruples not to call it a yoke •which neither they nor their fathers -were able to bear ; the Chriftian church hath no other obtervances of a ritual nature, but thofe two flrnple and eafy... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - 1769 - 454 sidor
...would obtain by becoming his difciples. And certain it is, that the obfervation of thofe rites was a yoke, which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear, and from which Chrift did at the proper time releafe his followers : wherefore he might be juftly faid... | |
 | 1848 - 726 sidor
...oppressive weight of these rites they laboured, and were heavily laden. St. Peter says, this law imposed "a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." St. Paul calls it "a yoke of bondage," which was " imposed on. them until the time of reformation."... | |
 | Isaac de Beausobre, Jacques Lenfant - 1806 - 344 sidor
...were of a very antient d»te. It was undoubtedly upon their account, that St. Peter saide, The law was a yoke, which neither they, nor their fathers, were able to bear. 2. In judging also of the things and persons devoted to God, and to appoint the price of the-ir redemption.... | |
 | Robert Robinson - 1807 - 384 sidor
...pleasure, and rejoiced for the consolation. A high satisfaction indeed, to be freed by such authority from a yoke, which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear ! Here then, christians, is your discharge from Jewish ceremonies : this is your reason for rejecting... | |
 | John Parkhurst - 1809 - 890 sidor
...xv. 10. Gal. vi And as in the former passage it is described as a yoke which neither they nor thtir fathers -were able to bear, so in the latter it is called a yoke (if bundage or slaicry, in opposition to which, especially as aggravated by the Pharisaical Traditions... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1810 - 406 sidor
...the inftitutions of the gofpel the various rites of their former religions. They took on themfelves a yoke, which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear : when the yoke which Chrift laid on them was eafy and his burden was light. A fuperftitious zealot... | |
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They were said therefore to be in bondage to the law ; and the law was said to be a yoke, which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear : Acts xv. 
