But those besotted and infatuated men of Israel, instead of entering into and living by the great spiritual promises given to them in their Messiah, made lands, and houses, and meat, and drink, all the Messiah they cared for.

Matthew Henry says that when we go to the merchant to buy goods, he gives us the paper and the pack-thread to the bargain.

Well, those children and fools in Israel actually threw away the goods and hoarded and boasted over the paper and the pack-thread.

Our old Scottish lawyers have made us familiar with the distinction in the church between _spiritualia_ and _temporalia_.

Well, the Jews let the _spiritualia_ go to those who cared to take such things, while they held fast to the _temporalia_.