| Daniel West - 1854 - 368 pages
...remonstrance against the imposition of the Jewish ceremonial on the Gentile converts, characterizing it as a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear. Several others having addressed the assembly, the question was determined in favour of the exemption... | |
| John Owen - 1855 - 596 pages
...and infirmities.— Herein lies the greatest part of that yoke which the apostle Peter affirms that " neither they nor their fathers were able to bear," Acts xv. 10; which the Lord Christ gives us deliverance from, Matt xL. 27-30. Ver. 28. — " For the law maketh... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1856 - 432 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... | |
| John James Blunt - 1857 - 392 pages
...— who had never been reconciled to the authority of the Romans ; who were ever burning to cast off a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear — were driven to extremities by this Emperor, whose contumely was even more trying than the absolute... | |
| George Bush - 1858 - 480 pages
...which was imposed upon the Jews, and of which it is said by the apostle Peter that they constituted "a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." This kind of defilement which was to be remedied was as light and venial as could well be conceived;... | |
| Simon Patrick - 1858 - 670 pages
...said of the bishop of Rome's tyranny, as St. Peter did of the burden of Jewish ceremonies, that it was a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear. And " among all the authentic records" (to use the words of him that set out the Review of the Council... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1858 - 432 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... | |
| George Bush - 1858 - 488 pages
...which was imposed upon the Jews, and of which it is said by the apostle Peter that they constituted " a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." This kind of defilement which was to be remedied was as light and venial as could well be conceived... | |
| Robert Meek - 1860 - 442 pages
...are strangely overlooked. Rulers and their subjects everywhere groaned beneath its despotism, as " a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear," repressing all the noble aspirations of mankind for knowledge, freedom, and religious advancement.... | |
| Russell Lant Carpenter - 1860 - 176 pages
...from worse than mortal foes. Redemption is deliverance from bondage ; they had been in bondage under a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear : they had been " slaves to sin unto death." They were redeemed to God, not from Him. The good shepherd... | |
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