Discovery Box1 Thessalonians 5:1
Context5:1 Now on the topic of times and seasons, 1 brothers and sisters, 2 you have no need for anything to be written to you.
Jeremiah 31:34
Context31:34 “People will no longer need to teach their neighbors and relatives to know me. 3 For all of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,” 4 says the Lord. “For 5 I will forgive their sin and will no longer call to mind the wrong they have done.”
Hebrews 8:10-11
Context8:10 “For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put 6 my laws in their minds 7 and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people. 8
8:11 “And there will be no need at all 9 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. 10
Hebrews 8:1
Context8:1 Now the main point of what we are saying is this: 11 We have such a high priest, one who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, 12
Hebrews 2:1
Context2:1 Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
[5:1] 1 tn Grk “concerning the times and the seasons,” a reference to future periods of eschatological fulfillment (cf. Acts 1:7).
[5:1] 2 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:4.
[31:34] 3 tn Heb “teach…, saying, ‘Know the
[31:34] 4 sn This statement should be understood against the background of Jer 8:8-9 where class distinctions were drawn and certain people were considered to have more awareness and responsibility for knowing the law and also Jer 5:1-5 and 9:3-9 where the sinfulness of Israel was seen to be universal across these class distinctions and no trust was to be placed in friends, neighbors, or relatives because all without distinction had cast off God’s yoke (i.e., refused to submit themselves to his authority).
[31:34] 5 tn The Hebrew particle כִּי (ki) that introduces this clause refers to more than just the preceding clause (i.e., that all will know the
[8:10] 6 tn Grk “putting…I will inscribe.”
[8:10] 8 tn Grk “I will be to them for a God and they will be to me for a people,” following the Hebrew constructions of Jer 31.
[8:11] 9 tn Grk “they will not teach, each one his fellow citizen…” The Greek makes this negation emphatic: “they will certainly not teach.”
[8:11] 10 tn Grk “from the small to the great.”
[8:1] 11 tn Grk “the main point of the things being said.”
[8:1] 12 sn An allusion to Ps 110:1; see Heb 1:3, 13.
