Then I cut asunder mine other staff] Whereby is meant, that Christ would not onely governe his people any more in mildnesse, and clemencie, nor exercise his shepherdly severity in saving corrections, and visitations, as he had done in former times: but that he would altogether reject them. Bands] Or, binders. that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel] Taking away from the Jews, according to the flesh, the title of being my Church, and my people: whereas before, Israel the people of God, and Judah had been the same thing in name and in effect: and I will take unto me the Israel, which is according to the spirit: namely, all true beleevers: and will reject the carnall Judah.