—1. That of the promise ; 2. That of instruction (psedagogiae) ; 3. That of fulfilment. The instruction (as children) began at the time of the departure from Egypt, with that which was des tined to become old (ver. 13). — avrot OVK tve^eivav sv rri diaOiixr) pou, ndyu fifAsXyffa avruv, they did not continue in My covenant, and I did not regard (care for) them) Correlatives, as ver. 10, from the opposite, I will be to them a GOD, and they shall be to Me a people; but the method of proceeding is now reversed : the people had begun first to put an end to the covenant : God both begins and perfects all things in the new covenant, ver. 10, 11. — Xfyyolj rifi's'hriGa aur&v) LXX., %a,l syu TjfAsXqffa, avruv, and I did not regard them. Dl VPJD 'OJN'i, and I ruled over them ; although some claim for the verb ?JD, the meaning ?JW, disregard, from the Arabic idiom. God's ruling and disregard may, in some measure, be reconciled in this view : / treated them as if they were not Mine ; Hos. i. 9 : nor was I propitious to their sins ; Deut. xxix. 19, xxxi. 16, etc. They are not regarded over whom such lordly rule is exercised ; they do not rejoice in (are not privileged with) that access, in which those who are in cove nant or in friendship rejoice; John xv. 15 : but they are treated as slaves ; nor are they held in great consideration, whatever may befall them ; Ezek. xxiv. 6, at the end ; Jer. xv. 1,2. The passages, Jer. iii. 14, Ezek. xx. 33, 37, express a somewhat similar idea : but in both places there is rather a promise than a threatening ; nay, even in the present, Jer. xxxi. 32. The Hebrew Masters, as Surenhusius shows, in /3//3X3 xara?,Xay5jg, p. 628, understand the word T&JO to apply to the dominion of love and good pleasure ; and it is not, save by an error in writ ing, that they turn it into the contrary, T&m, / have disdained or disregarded (fastidivi). The LXX. seem evidently to have read D2 T6yj, which very word Jeremiah uses, ch. xiv. 19, I^TI avb 2/wt> an'sffrri (n^j) 55 -^vyjk ffov ; hath thy soul loathed Sion ?
10. A/a^xjj) diaQfavi <aou, LXX. — 'iffpafa, Israel) Here Judah is to be understood. A new union together of the people. There were two houses in the Old Testament, ver. 8 : they be come one house in the New. — didovg) The participle for the verb ; 2 Pet. i. 17 : Sidovg Suffu, LXX. So a/Soy?, Is. xl. 29. There are four sentences arranged by Chiasmus. The first, I will give