 | Samuel Minton - 1847 - 320 pages
...appointed, but even of their prayers. Is i. 15. Mr. Barker lays stress upon a passage in Jer. vii. 22, 23. " I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them...brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices ; but this thing commanded 1 them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will... | |
 | Patrick Livingstone - 1847 - 406 pages
...who shews their evil deeds unto them by his light in their hearts. See Jer. vii. 22, 23 and 24. " For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them, in the day that I brought them forth of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices; but this thing commanded I them,... | |
 | Scott Frederick Surtees - 1847 - 82 pages
...that they should all be to him " a kingdom of Priests and a holy nation." Thus the Prophet Jeremiah, " I spake not unto your Fathers nor commanded them in the day I brought them forth out of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices, but this one thing, I... | |
 | 1850 - 862 pages
...manner does the Most High manifest his regard to spiritual worship oniy, that he says, " I spake not to your fathers nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices, but this thing I said unto them, Obey my voice, and I will be your... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1851 - 552 pages
...of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. 22. For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them...brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices: 23. But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will... | |
 | Shubert Spero - 1983 - 406 pages
...essence of the divine densand is alluded to in the well-known declaration of Jeremiah: “For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day...brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burntofferings or sacrifices; but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Hearken unto my voice, and... | |
 | 1926 - 358 pages
...states explicitly that sacrifice was no part of the original revelation given to the nation :—" For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them...brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices : but this thing I commanded them, saying, Hearken unto my voice, and... | |
 | Šelomo Bîderman, Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 314 pages
...(6:9, etc.) — should not be canvassed independently of the seventh chapter of Jeremiah — “For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them...brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices” (7:22). It is a certain scripture-marking practice which has tied... | |
 | John Duncan Martin Derrett - 1982 - 278 pages
...that burnt offerings and sacrifices of which the sacrificers partake themselves are useless, ‘For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them...I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices: but this thing I commanded them, saying, “Hearken unto my voice...”... | |
 | John Duncan Martin Derrett - 1982 - 278 pages
...says that burnt offerings and sacrifices of which the sacrificers partake themselves are useless, 'For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them...I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices: but this thing I commanded them, saying, "Hearken unto my voice..."'... | |
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It was the anxious wish of the author, repeatedly expressed, that these words should be understood with the modification implied, as in other passages of Holy Scripture, so very emphatically in Jer. vii. 22: " I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded... 
