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 own heart, of whom the expression is first used (i Kings iii. 6), and their other fathers, who " walked with God "; so also restored and converted Israel shall walk before Him " in truth and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart " throughout the rest of their national history even as we read in Jer. xxxii. 38-41, which, as already stated, is in some respects parallel to Zech. viii.: " A nd they shall be My people, and I will be their God; and I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear Me for ever, for the good of tJiem, and of their children after them: and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; and I will put My fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from Me. Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with My whole heart and with My whole soul."

A word more, perhaps, needs to be said on the ex pression in the 8th verse, " And they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem" upon which the allegorising com mentators have fixed as a proof that it is not a literal restoration of literal Israel which is spoken of.

Thus Pusey, Dr. Wright, Keil, and others are quite dogmatic that it is not the literal Jerusalem, because this, to quote the words of the first of the above-named authors, " could not contain the Jews from all quarters of the world, whom, as they multiplied, the whole land could not contain; but the promised Jerusalem, the Jerusalem which should be inhabited as towns without walls, to which the Lord should be a wall of fire round about," which, as is to be seen from his comments on the?th verse, he interprets of the Church.

To this I would reply that the enlarged Jerusalem, which " should be inhabited as towns without walls," and of which Jehovah Himself shall be the defence and " the glory in the midst thereof," is also the literal Jerusalem, as I have, I think, clearly shown in my exposition of the 2nd chapter. As to the expression, " in the midst of Jerusalem," even Dr. Wright, who denies any future fulfilment of this prophecy to literal Israel, says: " The allusion is evidently to Jerusalem,