Hebrews 8:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For finding fault with them, &c.— "For God having accused and reproved the Jews by the prophet Jeremiah, Jeremiah 31:31, &c. for their transgressions of that covenant, (he says,) Observe with attention, wonder, and joy, The days are coming and hastening on apace, (says the Sovereign Lord of heaven and earth,) even the days of the Messiah, whom you expect to come, when I will assuredly set up a near covenant-dispensation; and I will establish it with my faithful people, who yield to be saved by grace, and perseveringly cleave to me in faith, both with those who are among the ten tribes of Israel, and with those of the house of Judah, including that of Benjamin, who in all their turns have shamefully violated my present covenant with them: and I will make it not with those only who belong to any of these tribes, but with all my spiritual Israel who were typified by them; and who under the gospel state, whether they be Jews or Gentiles, shall be called the Israel of God. Galatians 6:16." That the true Israel of God, of what nation soever, are to be included under these characters or descriptions of Israel and Judah, appears; because the persons here intended, are those who through grace would receive the laws of Jehovah into their mind and hearts; which cannot be said of the whole body of Israel after the flesh, much less of every one of them, but holds good of all the spiritual Israel, whether Jews or Gentiles, and of none but them.