Jeremiah speaks of God's new...
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Jeremiah speaks of God's new covenant, which did not supplant the former covenant but,
rather, fulfilled it. Here's an example of an old covenant that just goes on and on:
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (AP) -- a bunch of out-of-towners who think New Rochelle owes them something forced the city to round up an innocent farm animal to honor a 311-year-old real estate deal. "Where's the beef?" William Rodman Pell III said Thursday before Mayor Timothy Idoni handed over a six-month-old Holstein named Jessie, this year's payment on a never-ending debt. Pell is a descendant of Sir John Pell, who sold 6,000 acres of his holdings in 1688 to French Huguenots who had escaped religious persecution. The parcel became New Rochelle, now a New York City suburb. Sir John received the equivalent of $11,625 and was promised "one fatt calfe on every fouer and twentieth day of June early and every year forever, if demanded."
(From InfoBeat News, June 25, 1999.)
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (AP) -- a bunch of out-of-towners who think New Rochelle owes them something forced the city to round up an innocent farm animal to honor a 311-year-old real estate deal. "Where's the beef?" William Rodman Pell III said Thursday before Mayor Timothy Idoni handed over a six-month-old Holstein named Jessie, this year's payment on a never-ending debt. Pell is a descendant of Sir John Pell, who sold 6,000 acres of his holdings in 1688 to French Huguenots who had escaped religious persecution. The parcel became New Rochelle, now a New York City suburb. Sir John received the equivalent of $11,625 and was promised "one fatt calfe on every fouer and twentieth day of June early and every year forever, if demanded."
(From InfoBeat News, June 25, 1999.)
