Homilist Isaiah 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble to me; I am weary to bear them. Wonderful expression this! It suggests the idea that the Almighty is oppressed with the weight of human sins. I. THE EXQUISITE MORAL SENSIBILITY OF GOD. God is not mere force or intellect, He is heart, He is infinite sensibility. All events and actions vibrate on His nature — He is feelingly alive to all. II. THE AMAZING PATIENCE OF GOD. If He is "weary" why does He "bear" it? Why does He not quench in the midnight of eternal extinction all the authors of sin. III. THE REMEDIAL AGENCY OF GOD. Because sin is so abhorrent, and the sinner so dear, He sent His "only begotten Son" into the world, in order to "put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself." (Homilist) Parallel Verses KJV: Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. |
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