effect. That is about all one can say. Yet the obvious allusion in v. 14 to 36:27 should nevertheless warn us against giving this present passage a position antecedent to the promise expressed there. It is in any case impossible to fix dates for the composition of the major promises, and to try to determine the period of time during which they exercised the strongest influence on Israelite mentality is a piece of experimentation which can follow only the uncertain lines of psychological conjecture.