...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....

...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...

...to 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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...