Page 273 - NOTES ON EZEKIEL

CHAPTER XLVII. 267
children among you: and they shall he unto you as-
born in the country among the children of Israel; they
shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of
Israel. And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe
the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his in­
heritance, saitli the Lord Jehovah.” (Vers. 22, 23.)
Who can doubt that such largeness of heart and
liberality of hand are absolutely new to Israel ?
On every side the evidence is complete that it is not of
the past and accomplished we here read, but of the bright
future of God for Israel in their land, when there will
be a welcome for the stranger truly divine to an in­
heritance in any tribe whatsoever. So will it be with
the Jew in that day, happy contrast with all that has
ever been ! He will learn it of God when he bows to
Jesus, and himself blessed be a blessing. Good measure,,
pressed down, shaken together, and running over, such-
shall they give to the praise of His mercy which en­
dures for ever.