And with this very warning against a false reliance on the symbols themselves, the same prophet gives assurance of better things in store for all those who are in true blood-covenant with God; even though they be not of the peculiar people of Abraham’s natural descent. Foretelling the future, when the types of the sacrifice shall be realized, he says: “And in this mountain shall the Lord of Hosts make unto all peoples A feast of fat things, A feast of wine on the lees; Of fat things full of marrow, Of wines on the lees well refined.”[538] The feast of inter-communion shall be sure, when the blood-covenant of inter-union is complete. Again, by Jeremiah: “Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh. [But remember that that is not the completion of a covenant with me]. For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them, In the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, Concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices. [As if burnt offerings and sacrifices were the all important thing]; But this thing I commanded them, saying, Hearken unto my voice, And I will be your God, And ye shall be my people; And walk ye in all the way that I command you, That it may be well with you.”[539] Once more, by Hosea: “O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? For your goodness is as a morning cloud, And as the dew that goeth early away.... For I desire mercy and not sacrifice; And the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings. But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: [or, as the Revisers’ “margin” would render it, “But they are as men that have transgressed a covenant”:] There have they dealt treacherously against me”[540] [Therein have they proved unfaithful to the requirements of the blood-covenant on which they assumed to be resting, in their sacrifices]. And so, all the way along through the prophets, in repeated emphasis of the incompleteness of the blood-covenanting symbols in the ritual sacrifices.