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are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you. When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quick

And made Israel to pass through the midst of it for his mercy endureth for ever, cxxxvi. 11-14. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young, Isa. xl. 11. In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old, lxiii. 9. Then he re-ly from off the good land which he membered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him? That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name? That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble, 11-13.

They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, Exod. xxxii. 8. Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, Deut. xxix. 25. And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them; and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. Then my anger shall be kindled against them, in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them: so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us? And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought in that they are turned unto other gods, xxxi. 16-18. Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things

hath given unto you, Josh. xxiii. 15, 16. And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them. And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven and served Baal. And they caused their sons and their daugh ters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah only, 2 Kings xvii. 15-18. They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; And forgat his works and his wonders that he had shewed them, Psal. lxxviii. 10, 11. But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow, 57. For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not, Jer. xi. 7, 8. And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done

thus unto this great city? Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and worshipped other gods, and served them, xxii. 8, 9. Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD, xxxi. 32. Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness? yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine, Ezek. xvi. 8. For thus saith the Lord God; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant, 59.

eYe have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more. Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen ; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation, Judg. x. 13, 14. The anger of the Lord hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders, Lam. iv. 16. Though ye offer me burnt-offerings and your meat-offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fat beasts, Amos v. 22. And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good-will at your hand, Mal. ii. 13.

VER. 10.

Ὅτι αὕτη ἡ διαθήκη ἣν διαθήσομαι τῷ οἴκῳ Ἰσραὴλ μετὰ τὰς ἡμέρας ἐκείνας, λέγει Κύριος, διδοὺς νόμους μου εἰς τὴν διάνοιαν αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐπὶ καρδίας αὐτῶν ἐπι· γράψω αὐτούς· καὶ ἔσομαι αὐτοῖς εἰς Θεὸν, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἔσονταί μοι εἰς λαόν.

For a this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them tin their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. + Or, upon.

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aThis is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them. And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more, Heb. x. 16, 17.

bAnd Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel, Exod. xxiv. 4. And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient, 7. And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew these two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest, xxxiv. 1. And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel, 27. And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live, Deut. xxx. 6. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people, Jer. xxxi. 33. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me, xxxii. 40. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will and will give them an heart of fesh, take the stony heart out of their flesh, Exod. xi. 19. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you : and I will take away the stony heart out of your fesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will you to walk in my statutes, and ye put my spirit within you, and cause shall keep my judgments and do them, xxxvi. 26, 27. Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of

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the living God; not in tables of stone, be their God, Ezek. xi. 20. And ye but in fleshy tables of the heart, shall dwell in the land that I gave to 2 Cor. iii. 3. But if the ministration your fathers, and ye shall be my peoof death, written and engraven in ple, and I will be your God, xxxvi. stones, was glorious, so that the chil. 28. My tabernacle also shall be with dren of Israel could not stedfastly be- them : yea, I will be their God, and hold the face of Moses for the glory of they shall be my people, xxxvii. 27. his countenance ; which glory was to So the house of Israel shall know that be done away: How shall not the mi- I am the LORD their God from that nistration of the Spirit be rather glo- day and forward, xxxix. 22. Yet the rious? 7, 8. Of his own will begat he number of the children of Israel shall us with the word of truth, that we be as the sand of the sea, which canshould be a kind of firstfruits of his not be measured nor numbered ; and creatures, Jam. i. 18. Wherefore lay it shall come to pass, that in the apart all filthiness and superfluity of place where it was said unto them, naughtiness, and receive with meek - Ye are not my people, there it shall be ness the engrafted word, which is able said unto them, Ye are the sons of the to save your souls, 21. Being born living God, Hosea i. 10. And I will again, not of corruptible seed, but of sow her unto me in the earth ; and I incorruptible, by the word of God, will have mercy upon her that had not which liveth and abideth for ever, obtained mercy; and I will say

to them 1 Pet. i. 23.

which were not my people, Thou art c But now they desire a better my people ; and they shall say, Thou country, that is, an heavenly; where-art my God, ii. 23. And I will bring fore God is not ashamed to be them, and they shall dwell in the midst called their God : for he hath pre- of Jerusalem; and they shall be my pared for them a city, Heb. xi. 16. people, and I will be their God, in And I will establish my covenant be- truth and in righteousness, Zech. viii. tween me and thee, and thy seed after 8. And I will bring the third part thee, in their generations for an ever- through the fire, and will refine them lasting covenant, to be a God unto as silver is refined, and will try them thee, and to thy seed after thee. And as gold is tried : they shall call on I will give unto thee, and to thy seed my name, and I will hear them: I will after thee, the land wherein thou art say, It is my people; and they shall a stranger, all the land of Canaan say, The Lord is my God, xiii. 9. I for an everlasting possession; and I am the God of Abraham, and the will be their God, Gen. xvii. 7, 8. God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? My beloved is mine, and I am his: he God is not the God of the dead, but of feedeth among the lilies, Cant. ii. 16. the living, Matt. xxii. 32. And what And I will give them an heart to know agreement hath the temple of God me, that I am the Lord: and they with idols ? for ye are the temple of shall be my people, and I will be their the living God; as God hath said, I God : for they shall return unto me will dwell in them, and walk in them; with their whole heart, Jer. xxiv. 7. and I will be their God, and they shall At the same time, saith the LORD, be my people, 2 Cor. vi. 16. will I be the God of all the families d Now therefore, if ye will obey my of Israel, and they shall be my peo- | voice indeed, and keep my covenant, ple, xxxi. 1. But this shall be the co- then ye shall be a peculiar treasure venant that I will make with the unto me above all people : for all the house of Israel; After those days, earth is mine. And ye shall be unto saith the LORD, I will put my law in me a kingdom of priests, and an holy their inward parts, and write it in nation. These are the words which their hearts; and will be their God, thou shalt speak unto the children of and they shall be my people, 33. And Israel, Exod. xix. 5, 6. As he saith they shall be my people, and I will also in Osee, I will call them my peobe their God, xxxii. 38. That they ple, which were not my people ; and may walk in my statutes, and keep her beloved, which was not beloved. mine ordinances and do them: and And it shall some to pass, that in the they shall be my people, and I will place where it was said unto them,

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Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the liv-manded, saying, Carry thither one of ing God, Rom. ix. 25, 26. Who gave the priests whom ye brought from himself for us, that he might redeem thence; and let them go and dwell us from all iniquity, and purify unto there, and let him teach them the himself a peculiar people, zealous of manner of the God of the land. Then one of the priests whom they had good works, Tit. ii. 14. But ye are à chosen generation, a royal priest- carried away from Samaria came and hood, an holy nation, a peculiar peo- dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how ple; that ye should shew forth the they should fear the LORD, 2 Kings And thou, Solomon my praises of him who hath called you out xvii. 27, 28. of darkness into his marvellous light: son, know thou the God of thy faWhich in time past were not a people, ther, and serve him with a perfect but are now the people of God: which heart and with a willing mind: for had not obtained mercy, but now have the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of obtained mercy, 1 Pet. ii. 9, 10. the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee of for ever, 1 Chron, xxviii. 9. And Herekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peaceofferings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers, And thou, Ezra, Chron. xxx. 22.

VER. 11.

Καὶ οὐ μὴ διδάξωσιν ἕκαστος τὸν πλησίον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἕκαστος τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ, λέγων· Γνῶθι τὸν Κύριον· ὅτι πάντες εἰδήσουσί με, ἀπὸ μικροῦ αὐτῶν ἕως μεγάλου

αὐτῶν,

And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, b Know the Lord for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

a And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem, Isa. ii. 3. And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD, and great shall be the peace of thy children, liv. 13. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sins no more, Jer. xxxi. 34. It is written in the 'prophets, And they Every shall be all taught of God. man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me, John vi. 45. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him, 1 John ii. 27.

after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not, Ezra vii. 25.

c And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart, Jer. xxiv. 7. Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the LORD God, Ezek. xxxiv. 30. And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life, 1 John v. 20. See also on Matt. viii. ver. 11. clause 1.

d For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely, Jer. vi. 13. Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the

people from the least even unto the greatest, came near, xlii. 1. Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, 8. And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach, xliv. 12, To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God, Acts

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Ὅτι ἵλεως ἔσομαι ταῖς ἀδικίαις αὐτῶν, καὶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν αὐτῶν καὶ τῶν ἀνομιῶν αὐτῶν οὐ μὴ μνησθῶ ἔτι.

For a I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more, Heb. x. 16, 17. Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD, Psal. XXV. 7. Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away, lxv. 3. I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins, Isa. xliii. 25. I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins; return unto me; for I have redeemed thee, xliv. 22. And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me, Jer. xxxiii. 8. In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall

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not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve, 1. 20. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea, Micah vii. 19. See also on Matt. ix. ver. 2. clause 4. VER. 13.

Ἐν τῷ λέγειν καινὴν, πεπαλαίωκε τὴν πρώτην· τὸ δὲ παλαιούμενον καὶ γηράσκον, tyyùs àpanoμou.

In that he saith, a A new covenant, b he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

a See on ver, 8.

b If therefore perfection were by the Levitical Priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another Priest should rise after the order of the order of Aaron ? For the PriestMelchisedec, and not be called after hood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law, Heb. vii. 11, 12. For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God, 18, 19. Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation, ix. 9, 10.

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Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath : for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished, Isa. li.6.