Introduction
CHAPTER 36
:-. ISRAEL AVENGED OF HER FOES, AND RESTORED, FIRST TO INWARD HOLINESS, THEN TO OUTWARD PROSPERITY.
The distinction between Israel and the heathen (as Edom) is: Israel has a covenant relation to God ensuring restoration after chastisement, so that the heathen's hope of getting possession of the elect people's inheritance must fail, and they themselves be made desolate ( :-). The reason for the chastisement of Israel was Israel's sin and profanation of God's name ( :-). God has good in store for Israel, for His own name's sake, to revive His people; first, by a spiritual renewal of their hearts, and, next, by an external restoration to prosperity ( :-). The result is that the heathen shall be impressed with the power and goodness of God manifested so palpably towards the restored people ( :-).
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