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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. "
GAīshúlos@. Æschylus, recens. J. Scholefield. [With] Appendix - Page 330
by Aeschylus - 1828
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Seven Letters to the Society of Friends on the Perpetuity, Subjects, and ...

Richard Pengilly - 1851 - 84 pages
...this Divine gift, I find not; but enough to show me that they looked upon the code of Jewish rites as "a yoke, which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear ;" Acts xv. 10. It is clear, and readily admitted, that many cf the professed Jewish converts, especially at Jerusalem,...
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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, According ..., Volume 1

1851 - 774 pages
...institutions "beggarly elements," and "the law of a carnal commandment;" and another allows, that they formed 43:11— 15. El. 12:16. 1 3 And y the blood shall be to you for — But if we look carefully into the New Testament, we shall be convinced, that these ordinances,...
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Notes on the Gospels, condensed from the Amer. ed. revised by S. Green

Albert Barnes - 1851 - 870 pages
...observe them ; but they clearly mean the ceremonies and rites appointed by Meses, which Peter says , that it is I myself: handle me, and see ; for a spirit hath Those rites were numerous, expensive, requiring much time, much property, and labour. The Pharisees...
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An Introduction to the New Testament: The Acts of the apostles to the Second ...

Samuel Davidson - 1894 - 616 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...
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The Works of John Owen, D.D.

John Owen - 1852 - 616 pages
...dispute about a judgment of their nature, but the necessity of their observation, when he calls them " a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear," Acts xv. 10. And when St Paul gives a charge to believers to " stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made...
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Manna in the house; or, Daily expositions of the Gospels. St. Matthew (St ...

Barton Bouchier - 1852 - 228 pages
...certain who would have imposed the ceremonial law of Moses on the Gentile converts, spoke of it as a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear ; and, assuredly, with all its various rites and ceremonies, it was a heavy and expensive burden. But...
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The Acts of the Apostles: With a Commentary

Abiel Abbot Livermore - 1853 - 350 pages
...emancipated from the old error. They demanded for their new disciples exemption from the burdensome ritual, which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear. Acts xv. 10. They said that nothing which God had cleansed, none of his creatures, children, should be pronounced...
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Notes Explanatory and Practical on the Gospels: Designed for ..., Volume 1

Albert Barnes - 1853 - 474 pages
...observe them ; but they clearly mean the ceremonies and rites appointed by Moses, which Peter says neither they nor their fathers were able to bear. Acts xv. 10. Those rites were numerous, expensive, requiring much time, much property, and laborious. The Pharisees...
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Exposition of the Acts of the Apostles: In a Series of Lectures

James Thomson - 1854 - 522 pages
...an endless succession of useless unmeaning ceremonies that formed, as the Apostle Peter justly said, a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear. They believed that God was a partial being, who not only preferred them to all people on the world,...
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The Doctrine of Baptism: As Taught in the Holy Scriptures, and Held by the ...

Alfred Lee - 1854 - 116 pages
...however indispensable as a preparation for the Gospel, proved to the Jews, St. Peter being witness, a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear. The Gospel, contrasted with the Law, is "the Ministration of the Spirit," and therefore preeminently...
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