...society. Many were " weary and heavy-laden" with the Pharisaic burdens — nay, found the law itself "a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." Many, too, expected from the Christ a thorough revolution, because Jeremiah had said, "I will make...

...judgments whereby they should not live." — (Ezekiel xx. 24-25.) Peter also speaks of the Mosaic law as " a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear," (Acts xv. 10,) and Paul describes it as "a ministration of death."— (2 Cor. iii. 7.) Mr. Bradlaugh may say it was...

...deprecated using "our power in helping to fasten on the necks of the oppressed subjects of the Porte a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." It denounced as execrable an " alliance with a cruel and criminal despotism ;" and earnestly hoped...

...propounds that the Jews cannot be completely justified by the Law, Peter declares (xv. 10) the Law a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear ; and in the same passage acknowledges the principle that Gentiles and Jews are saved in the same manner...

...impeach the law of righteousness as having been, not a source of joy to men, but, on the contrary, a yoke, which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear; and from which, though it be in itself holy, just,, and good, men must be delivered by God and a joyful...

...freedom, were to use our power in helping to fasten on the necks of the oppressed subjects of the Porte a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear. We do not believe that Great Britain has any true and lasting interests to subserve by such an alliance...

...feasts, yet was not Judaism a religion of much joy. It " put a yoke upon its disciples in apostolic times which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." Acts. xv. 10. But the Christian dispensation is a joyous one. The gospel was angelically announced as — "Good tidings...

...burden of sin, but rest from ceremonial observances, — a burden, as Peter afterwards reminded them, which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear. (Acts xv. 10.) But the authority of Jesus was not limited to the Israelitish nation ; it extended to the Gentiles....

...— who had never been reconciled to the authority of the Eomans ; 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...

...and Gentile, for even the Gentiles, the unclean, are purified by faith : he calls the law, xv. 1 0, a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear ; he declares that Jews as well as Gentiles can only be saved through the grace of Christ, and that...