Deuteronomy 30:6
And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
הערת לימוד
Study Note
The promise that God himself will 'circumcise thine heart' marks a decisive theological turn in Deuteronomy 30: the physical sign that Israel repeatedly failed to embody will be performed by divine initiative on the inner life itself. The phrase identifies the fundamental problem with covenant-keeping as anthropological — human hearts are insufficiently oriented toward God — and the solution as eschatological divine action rather than greater human moral effort. Jeremiah's new covenant (31:33: 'I will write my law on their hearts') and Ezekiel's new spirit promise (36:26–27: 'I will give you a new heart') develop this Deuteronomic seed, creating a prophetic trajectory that Paul reads as fulfilled through the Spirit in Romans 2:29 and 2 Corinthians 3:3. Reformed soteriology has found here its Old Testament basis for the doctrine of effectual calling and regeneration.
תרגומים נוספים
And Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
`And Jehovah thy God hath circumcised thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, for the sake of thy life;
And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.
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