to the collective nature of the experience. What is emphasised is the contrast with the largely external presentation of the law to the people through the covenant mediator. Now rather than being put before them,66 God undertakes to make an inner copy of it. What is referred to here seems to be the greater measure of the Spirit which is to be present to engender spiritual life in the new age. The old covenant had been given a new lease of life in Jeremiah’s day by Josiah’s reformation, but the people’s