Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 16:61

61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy yonger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters; but not by thy covenant.

When that new Covenant, made, and confirmed shall operate and take effect.

Consider and lay to heart, repent of, mourn for, loath and abhorre, and turn from all thy wicked wayes, all thy evil practices and doings.

Though whilst thou wast an Adulteress and false to thy Husband, thou didst not blush, now thou shalt with a deep shame remember and detest thy lewdness.

Admit into Church Communion, own them as members of the Church of God.

The Gentiles now strangers, but then sisters.

Or those that are greater and mightier then thou, or that by their Power, Wealth and Honour are as much above thee as the elder Children are above the younger.

Thy lesser or meaner sister.

They shall be to thee as a gift bestowed in love.

As daughters in duty hearken to, and obey, so shall the Gentiles brought into the Church hearken to the Word of God, which sounded out from the Jews, from Ierusalem.

Not by that old Covenant which was violated, not by external Ceremonies which were a great part of the first covenant, but by that covenant which writes the Law in the heart, and puts the fear of God into the inward parts.

Marginal references: chap. 20.43.; Isa. 54.1.60.4. Gal. 2.24 &c.