...redemption, it would well 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 penaltiti and rrtrards by which the law is enforced are such as depend on the direct theocracy....

...implied in strictly keeping the Law, "bound heavy burdens, grievous to be borne, on men's shoulders ; " " a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." 4 Hence, even in towns there were such large numbers who had never been able to carry out 1 Mark xii....

...transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made." Gal. iii, 19.) And that it was a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear; and that Christ came to fulfill the law and introduce the Gospel which was greater—a higher law and a...

...release from the ministry that Moses received and instituted as the way of drawing near to God. That was " a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." They saw that the New Covenant required them to " believe that they should be saved through the grace...

...the need of it (Gal. iii. 21). The people could not endure that which was enjoined. Peter calls it a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear (Acts xv. 10). It was given to convince man of his weakness and incapacity, and to compel him to confess...

...no right to assume in the case of the original Apostles. If these had really recognised the Law as a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear (verse 10), it would be inconceivable that after this realisation no less than before it they felt...

...Church who sought to overlay the simple ordinances of Christianity with Judaic observances and rlteSi " a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." Judas, surnamed Iscariot, one of the twelve Apostles of Christ, who from some infatuation that unaccountably...

...Legislature will treat so large a Number of good Subjects with such cruel Partiality" as to put them "under a Yoke, which neither they nor their Fathers were able to bear," merely to exalt a little Party, some of whose Clergy affect Importance, and make a great Bustle, proudly...

...not be enforced concerning the Gentiles or anyone else. Peter put it all in perspective calling it a yoke, which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear, (Acts 15:10). Although the issue was settled, the old law kept hanging around until it crept back in....

...they suffer ; while others, indignant at this abridgment of their dearest liberty, and impatient of a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear, will follow the dictates of their heart under the sanctions of conscience and the word of God. We do...