Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 8 · 1862
God or Self—Which?
Zechariah 7:5-6
AFTER the Jewish people had been thoroughly cured of their idolatrous tendencies by their seventy years of captivity, they fell into another evil; they became superstitiously regardful of ceremonies but they lost the life and spirit of devotion, and neglected the weightier matters of the law.