...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...— 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...

...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...

...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;...

...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...

...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...

...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....