 | James B. Crane - 1860 - 264 pages
...What is meant by heavy burdens ? A. The ceremonies and rites appointed by .Moses, which Peter says neither they nor their fathers were able to bear. Acts xv. 10. Q. For what did they do their works ? A. To be seen of men. Q. What did they do to their phylacteries?... | |
 | 1867 - 570 pages
...prove to be death. The service of Israel under the law, too, was so rigorous that it is said to be " a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." There is only one yoke that can add dignity to our character, satisfy the cravings of our deathless... | |
 | William Smith - 1863 - 1042 pages
...would well deserve from Israelites the description given of it by St. I'eter (Acts xv. 10), as '• a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." (c.) The penalties iml rcirnrris by which the law is on forced are such as de)>end on the direct th'»cracy.... | |
 | August Neander - 1865 - 590 pages
...297, note, f Thus Peter calls the law in its whole extent, contrasted with tho grace of redemption, " a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." Acta IT. 10. § Rom. i. 18, TÍJV d^Bciav Ь udi/cíji KaTtxovTtç. "They repressed the truth that... | |
 | Benjamin Field - 1868 - 298 pages
...be re-established as the law of the latter days; whereas, Peter told the Christian Jews that it was "a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." (Acts xv. 10.) St. James opposed the imposition of it on the Gentile converts as an error, appear to establish his... | |
 | Samuel Davidson - 1868 - 594 pages
...Pauline ideas. Peter declares that God put no distinction between Jews and Gentiles; and terms the law a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear. James himself declares the right of all the Gentiles to the privileges of Christianity. Thus Paul on... | |
 | Benjamin Field - 1870 - 354 pages
...re-established as the law of the latter days ; whereas, Peter told the Christian Jews that it was " a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." (Actsxv. 10.) St. James opposed the imposition of it on the Gentile converts as an error, fraught with... | |
 | John McClintock - 1873 - 976 pages
...redemption, it would n-efl deserve from Israelites the description given of it by St. Peter (Acts xv, 10) as "a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." (3.) The penalties and reward* by which the law is enforced are such as depend on the direct theocracy.... | |
 | James Glasgow - 1873 - 300 pages
...appoint it as a sign of the Abrahamic covenant. And Peter, in Acts xv. 10, speaks of it as a part of a yoke " which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." 14. The same must be said of the marriage with a brother's widow — a special case within a degree... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1874 - 490 pages
...burdensome, that they continually broke away from it; that some of them acknowledged that it " imposed a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear;" and yet that they have obstinately clung to it notwithstanding. He will be told that small and insignificant... | |
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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. 
