...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 in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, merely concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices : But this thing commanded I them, saying,...

...tables of stone was the debt book, or hand writing, against the Jews, and not the ceremonial law; " 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 commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be...

...blood, as God must be true to his word. In short the language of the Lawgiver is, obey my voice. " I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices. But this thing commanded I them saying, Obey my voice,...

...Jeremiah (vii. 22.) furnishes a decisive proof in. these words, For I spake not unte your fathers, neither commanded them, in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices. This, it is Urged, as referring expressly to a time prior to the giving of the law of...

...sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord," Prov. xv. 8^ " I spake not unto your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of...concerning burnt-offerings and sacrifices; but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice," Jer. vii. 22, 23. " He that killeth an ox, is as if he slew...

...Jeremiah, " Put your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. But I commanded not your fathers, in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offering, or sacrifices : but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and trust not...

...the laws of His good pleasure, or of His essential divine love. Hence, in respect to sacrifices, He says — " I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded...out of the land of Egypt, concerning burntofferings or sacrifices ; but this thing commanded I them, saying, ' Obey my voice,'" &c. (Jer. vii. 23.) Thus...

...might be given hereof. I shall direct only to one that is liable to no exception, Jerem. vii. 22, 23. ' 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...

...Abram was tried as to his fidelity by the command to offer up his son Isaac. In Jeremiah it is written, "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...

...Lord of hosts, the God of Israel. Put your burnt offering-- to your sacrifices, and eat flesh. For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them,...brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offering's or sacrifices: but this thing commanded I them, saying, OBEY MY VOICE, and I will...