 | Albert Barnes - Bible - 1799 - 416 pages
...their teaching. It is not the duty of men to imitate their teachers, unless their lives are pure.' 4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne,...themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. ' They bind heavy burdens,' &c. This phrase is derived from the custom of loading animals. The load... | |
 | Thomas Thirlwall - 1803 - 324 pages
...their face, with a divine eloquence. THEN spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, saying, " The Scribes and the " Pharisees " sit in Moses' seat:...ye after their works: " 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... | |
 | David Tappan - Bible - 1807 - 372 pages
...so corrupt, why does our Savior give the following direction to his disciples?—" The scribes and pharisees sit in Moses' seat ; all therefore whatsoever...ye after their works ; for they say, and do not." We answer, Moses* seat here probably means the chair or pulpit, from which they delivered their discourses,... | |
 | Timothy Kenrick - Bible - 1807 - 684 pages
...morals, as appears by their conduct towards Jesus, as well as from the account which he gives of them. 4. For they bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne...themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. The allusion here is to beasts of hurden, which when men have loaded with a heavy weight, they apply... | |
 | David Tappan - Bible - 1807 - 374 pages
...corrupt, why does our Savior give the following direction to his disciples?— "The scribes andpharisees sit in Moses* seat ; all therefore whatsoever they...ye after their works ; for they say, and do not." We answer, Moses* seat here probably means the chair or pulpit, from which they delivered their discourses,... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...bid 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,...themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 6 But all their works they do for to be seen of men : they make broad their phyjacteries, and enlarge... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...observe, and do ; but follow not the examples of their actions, for they say well, and do evil. XXIII. 4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne,...themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. They do, in their many and strict traditions, impose heavy charges of busy and troublesome observations... | |
 | John Watkins - 1809 - 454 pages
...Woes denounced against the Pharisees. THEN spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:...not ye after their works : 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... | |
 | James Macknight - Bible - 1809 - 544 pages
...the fbarttees. Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disci, pies. 2. Saying, The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses" seat. All, .therefore, whatsoever...not ye after their works ; for they say, and do not. For they bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne, and lay item on men's shoulders, but they themselves... | |
 | Edward Davies - 1811 - 438 pages
...practice is thus reproved and disallowed : — But do not ye after their works: for they say and do not ; for they bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne,...themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. Whilst they taught the precepts of the law, they themselves dispensed •with the observance of moral... | |
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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. 
