38.
(Zec 13:9; 14:2).
purge out--or, "separate." Hebrew, barothi, forming a designed
alliteration with "berith," the covenant; not a promise of
grace, but a threat against those Jews who thought they could in exile
escape the observation and "rule" of God.
land of Israel--Though brought out of the country of their sojourn
or exile (Babylon formerly, and the various lands of their exile
hereafter) into the literal land of Palestine, even it shall be to
them an exile state, "they shall not enter into the land of Israel,"
that is, the spiritual state of restored favor of God to His covenant
people, which shall only be given to the remnant to be saved
(Zec 13:8, 9).
JFB.
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