...excellency, they were gradually delivered from their attachment to the rituals of the law ; which Peter calls a yoke that neither they, nor their fathers, were able to bear. Nor doth it appear, that the apostles understood the extent of the command of Christ, " Go and teach...

...come to this decision, " that God puts no difference between Jews and Gentiles," and that this " was a yoke that neither they nor their fathers were able to bear :" and so it was not only laid aside as other legal ceremonies, which became not only dead, but deadly ; *...

...very reverse was the fact, as we may learn from Peter, Acts XV, 10, where he calls the ceremonial law a yoke that neither they nor their fathers were able to bear;) but that the inquiries of the performers might lead them to the uaderstanding of Ihose spiritual matters...

...with the ritual of the Jewish church, once of divine institution, and which the apostle Peter calls " a yoke that neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." But then, ministers of the gospel must preach the laws and commandments of Christ. Hence we find the...

...pride of their spirits, and to cause them to breathe after deliverance. This the apostle Peter calls " a yoke that neither they nor their fathers were able to bear," Acts xv. 10; that is, with peace, ease, and rest : which therefore the Lord Christ invited them to...

...not exist. The children of Israel, then, were placed under the law — a schoolmaster, we are told, "a yoke that neither they nor their fathers were able to bear." This Peter tells ua. Then there were other Prophets after Moses appeared on the stage, such as Job,...

...tilings of God." Wo have spoken of the higher and lower laws ; the Jews of Jesus' time / lived under a yoke that neither they nor their fathers were able to bear, the yoke of the gospel, hence they killed Jesus 1'or imposing it upon them. , Also, while they were...