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can allege with any semblance of a consistent interpreta­
tion that this word of promise in our prophet has been
fulfilled or yet begun to be ? The people and land of Israel
will then be holy in the full force of the expression. Then,
not before, will Jehovah be vindicated through Israel
before the eyes of the nations. The gospel which has
gone forth since the death and resurrection of Christ is
in contrast with it; for there all are alike treated as
sinners and lost, and those who believe not only find
indiscriminate mercy, but are brought into one new
man wherein is neither Jew nor Gentile. “ In that
day,” of which the prophet speaks, the distinction will
reappear, and Israel, delivered from all their idols and
every high place, will worship Jehovah their God on
the mountain of His holiness, on the mountain of the
height of Israel.
“ I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I
bring you out from the people, and gather you out of
the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I
will be sanctified in you before the heathen. And ye
shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall bring you
into the land of Israel, into the country foi the which
I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers. And
there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings,
wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall loathe your­
selves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have
committed. And ye shall know that I am Jehovah,
when I have wrought with you for my name’s sake, not
according to your wicked ways, nor according to your
corrupt doings, 0 ye house of Israel, saith the Lord
Jehovah.” (Ver. 41—44.) They will then be accepted
and know Jehovah, the promises to the fathers be