 | 1840 - 508 sider
...your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me," Jer. vi, 20. ''! desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burntofferings," Hosea vi, 0-8, 13 ; ix, 4. " I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not dwell in your solemn... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1840 - 540 sider
...burnt-offerings are not acceptable, Nor your sacrifices pleasant unto me. Jer. vi. 20. BLANIY. For I desired mercy and not sacrifice ; And the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings. Hosea vi. 6. I hate, I despise your solemn feast days, And I will not smell in your solemn assemblies... | |
 | Frederic Adolphus Krummacher, John Willison Ferguson - 1841 - 224 sider
...blessing of the sacrifice returns back on him that offers it, as we read in Hosea vi. 6. ' For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.' The sacrifices which the Centurion offered with his lips and hands, from a devout and godly heart,... | |
 | 1841 - 586 sider
...have mercy, and not sacrifice." The passage in the prophecy here quoted runs thus: " For I desired mercy and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burntofferings." The meaning is plainly this, that God is more pleased with " mercy," ie deeds of kindness, charity,... | |
 | George Rapall Noyes - 1843 - 328 sider
...slain them by the words of my mouth, And my judgments have gone forth like the light. 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings. 7 But they, after the manner of men, have transgressed the covenant ; Even therein have they dealt... | |
 | Daniel Bagot - 1844 - 356 sider
...and reproves them. The passage to which he here refers is taken from Hos. vi. 6 — " For I desired mercy and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burntofferings." Here the latter clause explains the former, which may be thus paraphrased — " I will not receive... | |
 | 1872 - 882 sider
...brought up before them an tinnoticed, if not unknown, saying by an ancient prophet : " For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings" (Hos. vi. G). Mercy and the knowledge of God are the fundamental principles of all moral and evangelical... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1884 - 522 sider
...all temple worship (ver. 12). The key to all such rhetorical passages is in Hosea vi. 6, ' I desired mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings. ' In spite of these recent theories the Pentateuch still stands as the most valuable early history... | |
 | Scott Frederick Surtees - 1847 - 82 sider
...do well," to " do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with their God," for that " he desired mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings." This was the sum and substance of the doctrine of the Prophets, this was prophecy or the catholic teaching... | |
 | Thomas Wilson - 1847 - 324 sider
...delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats." — Isaiah i. 11. " For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God, more than burnt-offerings." — Hosea vi. 6. " Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers... | |
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For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 
