 | Cunningham Geikie - 1889
...regarded by him as a needful condescension to the tendencies of the people. " Therefore I gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live." * The fidelity of the tribe of Levi, amidst the defection of the calf- worship, seems to have determined... | |
 | David Gilkison Watt - 1890
...authority with them than God's own word (1 Pet. i. 18.) Ver. 25. "Wherefore I gave them 231 CHAP. XX. also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live." This was a second retribution. We may compare here Rom. i. 24, according to which God, in just retribution... | |
 | Benedictus de Spinoza - 1891
...the city, but even from the founding of their laws. This is borne witness to by Ezekiel xx. 25 : " Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not...good, and judgments whereby they should not live ; and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the... | |
 | Benedictus de Spinoza - 1891
...the city, but even from the founding of their laws. This is borne witness to by Ezekiel xx. 25 : " Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not...good, and judgments whereby they should not live ; and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the... | |
 | 1892
...traditions of their fathers had more authority with them than God's own word (1 Pet. i. 18.) Ver. 25. "Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby tliey should not live.'1 This was a second retribution. We may compare here Rom. i. 24, according to... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1892 - Страниц: 432
...chap., verse 25, he makes God, in speaking of the children of Israel, to say, Wherefore I gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live. This, so far from being the word of God, is horrid biasphemy against him. Reader, put thy confidence... | |
 | 1894
...had formerly lent his name to the very imperfect religious system he would new no longer tolerate : ' I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live; and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the... | |
 | George Claude Lorimer - 1894 - Страниц: 480
...mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God ? " And Ezekiel utters the strange words, " I gave thenTalso statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live " ; doubtless meaning that the ceremonial law, while serving a pictorial purpose, was not designed... | |
 | Charles Voysey - 1895 - Страниц: 87
...3). Lastly, the Bible itself endorses all that I have said, in these words, from Ezekiel xx. 25, " Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live." I must not omit from this catalogue those blemishes on the beautiful Psalms in which Oriental hatred... | |
 | 1898
...despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols. Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not...good, and judgments whereby they should not live; and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the... | |
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