...scheme, different revelations communicated to them." — The Lord himself had said to hi» disciples, " I have many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now." John xvi. 12. But after all the outcry, which has been made with respect to the opinion of the New...

...and the load of ceremonies, were given to them on the considerate maxim suggested by our Saviour, " I have many things to tell you ; but ye cannot bear them now." Through the external rites and ordinances appointed for them, their spiritual nature and design occasionally...

...accommodation to the weakness and igrorance of the times. In like manner he said to his disciples, I have many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now. He accommodated himself to their weakness, and the darkness of the times. They were not yet able to...

...thou " hast, and give to the poor ; — be ye perfect, as your " Father in heaven is perfect ; — I have many things " to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now" — that is, as it was interpreted, " not in your present im" perfect state." His declaration also...

...words of our Saviour to his disciples, when he says to them, in all the tenderness of divine love — " I have many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now." A further illustration of it occurs in the teaching by parables, with the reason which our Lord assigns,...

...most intellectually satisfying answer yet given to the question of one who was herself a sufferer — Is it so, O Christ in Heaven, that the highest suffer most ? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity of pain, And the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the...

...the Mount, on in any other, fully and distinctly taught all that it was necessary for them to know; "I have many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now." But nevertheless — Fourthly; we do find most, if not everv, doctrine of the gospel implied or alluded...

...be perfect, go and sell all that thou hast." "Be ye perfect, us your FATHER in heaven is perfect." "I have many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now." 285 Two different tracts of life were thus pointed out to the pursuit of men by the moral theology...

...conduct of uninspired men. Because our Saviour said, a little before his death, to his apostles, " I have many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them yet," it has been concluded that many essential doctrines of our Saviour were omitted by himself, which...

...bearing or receiving them, for it was the testimony of Jesus near the close of his public mission : "I have many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now." But so far as he did tell them, they were the eternal truths of God never to be disannulled, as were...