and write them in their hearts The gift of an innerlaw, not written on granite slabs, but on the fleshen tablets of the heart, is the first promise of the New Covenant. It involves the difference between the Voice of the Spirit of the God in the Conscience and a rigid external law; the difference, that is, between spirituality and legalism. This is brought out in Ezekiel 36:26-29.

I will be to them a God For similar prophecies see Zechariah 8:8; Hosea 2:23; and for their fulfilment 1 Peter 2:9-10; 2 Corinthians 6:16-18.

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