For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Make with - `make unto.' Israel - comprising the before disunited (Hebrews 8:8) ten-tribes kingdom and that of Judah. They are united in the spiritual Israel, the elect Church now: they shall be so in the literal restored kingdom of Israel to come.
I will put, х didous (G1325)] - '(I) giving.' This is the first of the "better promises" (Hebrews 8:6).
Mind - their, intelligent faculty.
In, х epi (G1909)] - 'ON their hearts.' Not on tables of atone, as the law (2 Corinthians 3:3).
Write, х epigrapsoo (G1924)] - 'inscribe.'
I will be to them [ eis (G1519 ) Theon (G2316 ), Hebrews 1:5 : for] a God, ... Fulfilled first in the outward kingdom (Leviticus 26:12); next, in the inward Gospel kingdom (2 Corinthians 6:16); thirdly, in the kingdom at once outward and inward, the spiritual being manifested outwardly (Revelation 21:3). Compare a similar progression as to the priesthood:
(1) Exodus 19:6;
(2) 1 Peter 2:5;
(3) Isaiah 61:6; Revelation 1:6.
This progressive advance in the significance of the Old Testament institutions, etc. (Tholuck), shows the transparency and prophetic character throughout the whole.