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“In Jeremiah's prophecy of the New Covenant, Yahweh had said, ‘I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts’ (Jer. 31:33).
This means that the everlasting agreement would be written not on stone tablets, but in the flesh of the people's hearts; it would be not an oppressive law externally imposed, but a rule congruent with the deepest longing of the human soul.“

“Bound by no one, Augustus seems to be utterly free; but real freedom, Luke is telling us, is enjoyed by the child totally bound by his Father's will and hence tied to the good of the world he has come to serve. Once he has decided to create, God cannot remain indifferent to the world and its needs; on the contrary, he is bound by a fiercely parental love to everything that participates in his being.”