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Acts 15:10
Now therefore why tempt you God, to put a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
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Whether the New Law is More Burdensome than the Old?
... author]) say: "The commandments given to Moses are easy ... with which the precepts of
the Law are concerned ... of themselves are, in a way, difficult and burdensome. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the new law is 4.htm

Jews.
... a perfect faith, that the same law is never ... of this nation; the legislation of Moses;
the priesthood ... foreign masters was so grievous and burdensome, that they ...
//christianbookshelf.org/hayward/the book of religions/jews.htm

"Behold Your God!"
... The law of love by which heaven is ruled ... restriction upon men's happiness, a burdensome
yoke from which ... of Jehovah's character, which enabled Moses to proclaim ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 26 behold your god.htm

Authenticity and Credibility of the Pentateuch.
... a body of laws as that contained in the Pentateuch"so burdensome in their ... to read
the book of Deuteronomy; there he will see how the law of Moses aimed to ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter x authenticity and credibility.htm

Messiah's Easy Yoke
... which you have avoided as burdensome, there is no ... a towering figure in philosophy,
law, political theory ... Even Moses, though eminent for his forbearance towards ...
//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah vol 1/sermon xv messiahs easy yoke.htm

The Kinsman-Redeemer
... out thoroughly in the law of Moses, however imperfectly ... The law of blood-feud among
the Hebrews ... is liberty, emancipation from the burdensome restraints which ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/the kinsman-redeemer.htm

The Chosen People
... In the instruction given through Moses, God had placed ... With all their minute and
burdensome injunctions, it was ... Even Israel, he declared, did not keep the law. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/white/the desire of ages/chapter 2 the chosen people.htm

Exposition of the Moral Law.
... Hence the common axiom as to the perfection of the Evangelical Law, and its great
superiority to that of Moses. This idea is in many ways most pernicious. ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 8 exposition of the.htm

Letter Xlvi (Circa AD 1125) to Guigues, the Prior, and to the ...
... to become as one who would trouble even Moses on the ... Charity, therefore, perfects
the law of the slave when it ... First, that I fear to be burdensome to you; that ...
/.../some letters of saint bernard abbot of clairvaux/letter xlvi circa a d 1125.htm

The Lord Coming to his Temple
... The law was given by Moses (John 1:17) ; the ... manifest their ignorance and hatred
of the law and holiness ... and many persons who before were burdensome to society ...
//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah vol 1/sermon iv the lord coming.htm