Me : for who hath required these things at your hands? Tread no more My courts, not though ye bring with you fine flour. Incense is a vain abomination unto Me, and your new moons and sabbaths I cannot endure." ' He has therefore aboHshed these things, that the new law of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is without the yoke of necessity, might have a human oblation.^ And again He says to them, " Did I command your fathers, when they went out from the land of Egypt, to offer unto Me burnt-offerings and sac- rifices? But this rather I commanded them, Let no one of you cherish any evil in his heart against his neighbour, and love not an oath of falsehood. "^ We ought therefore, being possessed of under- standing, to perceive the gracious intention of our Father ; for He speaks to us, desirous that we, not 4 going astray like them, should ask how we may approach Him. To us, then, He declares, " A sacrifice [pleasing] to God is a broken spirit ; a smell of sweet savour to the Lord is a heart that glorifieth Him that made it." s We ought therefore, brethren, carefully to inquire concern- ing our salvation, lest the wicked one, having made his entrance by deceit, should hurl ^ us forth from our [true] life.