- Who
- The prophet Jeremiah
- To
- Judah on the eve of the Babylonian exile
- Where
- Jerusalem, c. 587 BC, the old covenant collapsing
- When
- God's promise of inward, Spirit-written renewal after exile
Why:Hebrews argues the Mosaic covenant was always provisional; Jeremiah himself anticipated its replacement in Christ.
Context:This is the longest OT quotation in the NT. The Wesleyan tradition reads it as the charter of entire sanctification — God writing his law on the heart.