...the fat of fed " beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, " or of lambs, or of he-goats.| I spake not unto " your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that " I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concern" ing burnt offerings or sacrifices : but this thing com" manded I them, saying, Obey...

...full " conviction" upon a basis so very dispulable as lhal of Ihe words * Jeremiah, vii. 22. " For I spake not unto your Fathers, nor commanded them, in the day of Jeremiah,* to which he alludes. We apprehend thai both Kimchi and Mr. Faber have greatly mistaken...

...Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, Put your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them,...thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you,...

...force of this, contrast it with the same prophet's declaration concerning ceremonial observances : "For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them...out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices. But this one thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God,...

...force of this, contrast it with the same prophet's declaration concerning ceremonial observances: "for I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them...out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices. But this one thing commanded I them, saying, obey my voice, and I will be your God,...

...commandments of men." k By Isaiah GOD saith : " Who hath required this at your hand ?"< And by Jeremiah, " I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them, in the day that I brought them out of (he land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices : but this thing commanded I them, saying,...

...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...out of the land of Egypt, concerning burntofferings or sacrifices : 23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God,...

...21. Such comparative modes of speech are not unfrequent in the scriptures, Thus Jer. 7. 22, 23. ' For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them...out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices. But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and...

...into covenant with God, their sacrifices had been held as of no account in comparison of obedience. " I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them...out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices. But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and...

...my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them : I am the Lord." By one of the prophets, he said, " Obey my voice, and walk in all the ways that I have commanded you." In the New Testament, all the exhortations to " repent and be converted," to " love God," to...