Jeremiah 31:36

“If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, etc.] Of the sun, moon, and stars; should these leave their proper course, and not perform their several functions, or do the service appointed for them; should they desert their master, or disobey his orders, turn away from him, and pay no regard to the laws and rules he has set them: [then] the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before me for ever; but, as the former is impossible, so is the latter, The Jews ceased not from being a nation through their captivity in Babylon, nor through their destruction by the Romans; they continue a distinct nation and people to this day, though scattered throughout the nations of…”

“a nation--Israel's national polity has been broken up by the Romans. But their preservation as a distinct people amidst violent persecutions, though scattered among all nations for eighteen centuries, unamalgamated, whereas all other peoples under such circumstances have become incorporated with the nations in which they have been dispersed, is a perpetual standing miracle (compare Jer 33:20; Psa 148:6; Isa 54:9-10).”

“If those - If these. From the uniformity of God’s operations in the material world, the prophet deduces the certainty of a similar uniformity in God’s dealings with man in things spiritual. A nation - A people. Israel has long ceased to be a nation, but it still exists as a numerous, influential, and distinct people. In Matthew 28:19-20 Jeremiah’s prophecy receives its Christian application, and Israel becomes the Church, with the promise of perpetual existence. It has no national existence, but its members ought to be a strongly marked people, refusing to be merged in the world, while everywhere they pervade and influence it. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Those ordinances - The ordinances of nature, which are God's establishments for the working of natural causes in their order. Jeremiah 31:37”

“those: Jer 33:20-26; Psa 72:5, Psa 72:17, Psa 89:36, Psa 89:37, Psa 102:28, Psa 119:89, Psa 148:6; Isa 54:9, Isa 54:10 cease: Jer 46:28; Deu 32:26; Amo 9:8, Amo 9:9 Jeremiah 31:37”