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He said, "Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won`t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.
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The Weight of Man-Made Rules
Commentators explain that the 'burdens' Jesus condemned were not God's law, but the complex, man-made oral traditions and interpretations created by the religious lawyers. Scholars describe these as 'crushing burdens' and 'a yoke' that were intolerable to bear, turning religion into a system of oppressive rules.
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Luke
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Grievous to be borne (δυσβαστακτα). A late word in LXX and Plutarch (δυς and βασταζω). Here alone in text of Westcott and Hort who…
19th Century
Anglican
Ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne.—See Note on Matthew 23:4.
Baptist
Their regulations regarding moral and ceremonial observances were like huge, unwieldy bundles or crushing burdens bound together, and made into a w…
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Jesus now directs words against the “experts in the law,” many of whom were Pharisees. Their religious legalism explains v.46. They could interpret…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he said, woe unto you also, you lawyers Christ was so far from calling back what he had said or suggested, that …
Presbyterian
We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed and new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, …
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