 | Charles Christian Hennell - 1838 - 402 Seiten
...honours will be attained." Ver. 23. "The weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith." Hosea vi. 6 : " For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings." Mark vii. 8 : " Laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men,... | |
 | Moses Mendelssohn - 1838 - 410 Seiten
...thee? To do justly to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God" (Micah vi.) : and so also Hosea : " For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings." (Hosea vi.) Can there be a purer religion than that preached here ? Is not sincere philanthropy, adoring... | |
 | Georg Lorenz Bauer - 1838 - 190 Seiten
...viols. But let j udgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream." — Amos v. 21-24. " For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings." — Hosea vi. 6. " Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the... | |
 | William Webb Ellis - 1838 - 352 Seiten
...urged it upon the practice as the grander object of attention : this is explained in the same verse, " For I desired mercy, and not " sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than " burnt offerings." And the same kind of expression our Saviour uses in the sixth chapter of St. Matthew,... | |
 | Georg Lorenz Bauer - 1838 - 186 Seiten
...viols. But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream." — Amos v. 21-24. " For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings." — Hnsea vi. 6. " Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1838 - 642 Seiten
...require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God ?" Mich. vi. 8. " For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God, more than burnt offerings," Hosea vi. 6. And there are very frequent and earnest exhortations to seek religious... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1838 - 330 Seiten
...worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world. 6 The Lord hath desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings. 7 What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. s Meat commendeth us not to God. For neither 1... | |
 | Elizabeth Constantia Agnew - 1839 - 340 Seiten
...prophets. I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and thy judgments shall go forth as the light, for I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than holocausts " The lesson read for the epistle, was from Exodus, relating to the institution of the passover,... | |
 | 1838 - 274 Seiten
...Lord." In the prophet Hosea, there is a passage on the same subject too remarkable to be omitted, " For I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt-oiferings." But does not God require our burnt-offerings or good works ? Yes, but true knowledge... | |
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For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 
