...when they read it. By sitting in the seatof Moses, we are to understand, authority to teach the law. 3 All, therefore, whatsoever they bid you observe, that...not ye after their works : for they say, and do not. ' All, therefore, whatsoever,' &c. That is, all that they teach consistent with the law of Moses ;...

...respect, when it is a debt of justice ; Honour to whom honour is due. Our Lord said, " The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses seat. All therefore whatsoever...observe and do ; but do not ye after their works." Matt. xxiii. 2, 3. Would external respect to such personages as these have been deemed insincerity...

...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:...borne, and " lay them on men's shoulders : but they them" selves will not move them with one of their " fingers. But all their works they do for to " be...

...the multitude, and to his disciples, 2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat : 3 All therefore, whatsoever they bid you observe, that...not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. 4 For they bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne, and iay them on men's shoulders; but they...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...the multitude, and to his disciples, 2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: 3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that...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...

...you how ye ought to live, what sins ye ought to avoid, what good duties ye ought to perform. XXTII. 3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that...not ye after their works : for they say, and do not. Their counsels and doctrines carry in them much shew of holiness and austerity, but their practices...

...castle. Yet, horrescu referent, these presbyterians, like the scribes and pharisees, bind heavy burthens, and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders,...themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. Witness the presbytery in Scotland, where they make a man an offender, and lay a snare for him that...