8:11 “And there will be no need at all 1 for each one to teach his countryman or each one to teach his brother saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ since they will all know me, from the least to the greatest. 2
8:12 “For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer.” 3
8:13 When he speaks of a new covenant, 4 he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear. 5
1 tn Grk “they will not teach, each one his fellow citizen…” The Greek makes this negation emphatic: “they will certainly not teach.”
2 tn Grk “from the small to the great.”
3 sn A quotation from Jer 31:31-34.
4 tn Grk “when he says, ‘new,’” (referring to the covenant).
5 tn Grk “near to disappearing.”