Acts 15:10

Now therefore why test God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Why tempt you God, by calling in question what he hath sufficiently attested, and approved, and by being incredulous to his promises of giving salvation to the Gentiles, and to all nations. (Witham)

Interlinear Gloss

AD 1480
'our fathers' We were not able to observe all the things that are in the Law.

John Chrysostom

AD 407
He thoroughly cleansed them first. Then he shows, not that the Law was evil, but themselves weak.— But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus we shall be saved even as they.

John Chrysostom

AD 407
What means, Tempt ye God? As if He had not power to save by faith. Consequently, it proceeds from a want of faith, this bringing in the Law. Then he shows that they themselves were nothing benefited by it, and he turns the whole (stress of his speech) against the Law, not against them, and (so) cuts short the accusation of them: which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear. But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus we shall be saved, even as they.

Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius

AD 320
With which sin and crime God was offended, and justly visited the impious and ungrateful people with severe punishments, and made them subject to the law

Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220
Sometimes catch at such parts of the law as they choose; plainly do we too assert that the law has deceased in this sense, that its burdens-according to the sentence of the apostles-which not even the fathers were able to sustain. For it is the "burdens "of the law which were "until John "not the remedial virtues. It is the "yokes "of "works "that have been rejected, not those of disciplines.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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