Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.vi Pg 3.2
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxvii Pg 30
Luke xi. 46.
but not as if He made a mock of4603 4603 Suggillans.
the burdens of the law with any feeling of detestation towards it. For how could He have felt aversion to the law, who used with so much earnestness to upbraid them for passing over its weightier matters, alms—giving, hospitality,4604 4604 Vocationem: Marcion’s κλῆσιν.
and the love of God? Nor, indeed, was it only these great things (which He recognized), but even4605 4605 Nedum.
the tithes of rue and the cleansing of cups. But, in truth, He would rather have deemed them excusable for being unable to carry burdens which could not be borne. What, then, are the burdens which He censures?4606 4606 Taxat.
None but those which they were accumulating of their own accord, when they taught for commandments the doctrines of men; for the sake of private advantage joining house to house, so as to deprive their neighbour of his own; cajoling4607 4607 Clamantes.
the people, loving gifts, pursuing rewards, robbing the poor of the rights of judgment, that they might have the widow for a prey and the fatherless for a spoil.4608 4608
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes vi.viii Pg 76.6
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 11
VERSE (46) - Isa 10:1 Mt 23:2-4 Ga 6:13
