That the uncircumcised in heart should be judged.
Jer. ix. 26. For God will judge the uncircumcised peoples, and all the people of Israel, because he is uncircumcised in heart.
That the exterior is nothing in comparison of the interior. Joel. ii. 13. Scindite corda vestra, etc. Isaiah lviii. 3,4, etc.
The love of God is commanded in the whole of Deuteronomy, Deut. xxx. 19: "I call heaven and earth to witness that I have set before you death and life, that you may choose life, and that you may love God, and obey him, for God is your life."
That the Jews, for lack of their love, should be rejected for their crimes, and the Gentiles chosen in their stead.
Hosea i. 10.
Deut. xxxii. 20. "I will hide myself from them in view of their latter sins, for they are a froward generation. They have provoked me to anger by things which are no gods, and I will provoke them to jealousy by a people which is not my people, by an ignorant and foolish nation."
Isaiah lxv. 1. That temporal goods are false, and that the true good is to be united to God.
Psalm cxliii. 15. That their feasts were displeasing to God.