For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. The Sabbath - Page 126by Amos Augustus Phelps - 1842 - 246 pagesFull view - About this book
| Amos Augustus Phelps - Sabbath - 1841 - 208 pages
...binding on the people. Hence the declaration of the Savior, (Matt. xxiii. 2 — 4,) " The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat;" — officially...their fingers." Here, then, we have this very power of binding, recognized by the Savior as residing, in the sense explained, in the scribes and Pharisees... | |
| Unitarianism - 1841 - 586 pages
...practice of theirs was afterwards expressly noticed and censured by the Master; for he tells them, that " they bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers." Jesus offers to his countrymen emancipation... | |
| Benjamin Hanbury - Congregationalism - 1841 - 632 pages
...sect of the Pharisees' of whom and to whom that was spoken, verse 5, — it is said, Matt, xxiii. 4, that ' they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders ;' which is spoken but of a doctrinal declaring and pressing men's consciences with the rigour of the... | |
| Walter Curtis Lichfield - Bible - 2004 - 638 pages
...you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. 4. For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 5. But all their works they do for... | |
| John Phillips - Religion - 2004 - 232 pages
...this very thing. He said to the multitudes and His disciples concerning the scribes and the Pharisees, "They bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers" (Matt. 23:4). At the Jerusalem conference,... | |
| Jonas Clark - Hypocrisy - 2004 - 188 pages
...was Saul" (Acts 7:57-58). I6.) Religious spirits put heavy burdens on others but not themselves. "For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers" (Matthew 23:4). I7.) Religious spirits... | |
| Jerri Younger - Religion - 2004 - 234 pages
...(Matt 23:1-7 '.... The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat...for they say, and do not. For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers... And love the uppermost rooms at... | |
| Ralph V. Harvey - Spiritual life - 2005 - 282 pages
...The Pharisees, however, lived apart from the people and made their own rales. Jesus said of them, For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers, Both the Shammite and Hillite Pharisees... | |
| Todd Tomasella - Religion - 2008 - 306 pages
...greatly (Matt. 23:1314). Christ lambasted the hell-bound religious hypocrites of His day saying: "For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers." Matthew 23:4 We should stand fast... | |
| John Phillips - Religion - 2005 - 564 pages
...all of life's little disguises. (1) What the Leaders Sought (23:4-12) (a) The Adherence of Men (23:4) "They bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders." For example the rabbis converted the sabbath from a day of rest to a wearisome observance of endless... | |
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