the rest are pre-eminently the very stamp and character of God, and it was the lack of them on Israel’s side, not on His, that had wrecked the marriage in the first place. So God’s gift is that He will not only be to us all these things but will impart them, so that His bride will be no longer in fundamental discord with Him and at odds with herself. It is another way of saying that He will put His law within His people and write it on their hearts (cf. Je. 31:33). Unwrapping, so to speak, the fivefold
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