one who can forget the past (v. 34) and begin again. [Has the Promise of Verse 30 Been Fulfilled?] Has the Promise of Verse 30 Been Fulfilled? As with the following verses (vv. 31–34) “those days” have not finally arrived. Children have continued to suffer for the sins of the parents from that day forward and communities have suffered the effects of the sins of previous generations as well. The moral order has continued to function in an inexact way and hence does not cut clean with regard to the
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