Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 31:34
I will forgive — God makes the root of all this grace to be the free pardon, and the remission of their sins.
I will forgive — God makes the root of all this grace to be the free pardon, and the remission of their sins.
Verse Jeremiah 31:34. _AND THEY SHALL TEACH NO MORE_] It shall be a time of universal _light_ and _knowledge_; all shall _know God in Christ, from_ _the least to the greatest_; the _children_ shall be...
The prophet shows that the happiness of Israel and Judah, united in one prosperous nation, will rest upon the consciousness that their chastisement has been the result of sins which they have themselv...
CHAPTER 31 _ 1. The home-going of the nation (Jeremiah 31:1) _ 2. The joy of salvation (Jeremiah 31:10) 3. The preceding tribulation, sorrow and repentance (Jeremiah 31:15) 4. Assur
The prophecy of the New Covenant, contained in these verses, may have been written in 586, when the destruction of Jerusalem had suggested that the Old Covenant was cancelled. The Jeremianic authorshi...
EVERY MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14. THEY SHALL ALL KNOW ME. See note on Jeremiah 9:24. KNOW. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for all the effects of knowing Jehovah....
See introd. summary to the section. These _vv_. are quoted in Hebrews 8:9-12. Cp. Ezekiel 37:23-27. We have here the announcement of a new covenant which should supersede that made at the time of the...
They shall each in the future possess, independent of external teaching, the knowledge of God, implanted by Himself in their hearts. Cp. Jeremiah 24:7, and still more clearly Jeremiah 9:24; so Isaiah...
DISCOURSE: 1074 THE NEW COVENANT Jeremiah 31:31. Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the Home of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covena...
BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, &C.— The covenant here spoken of Jeremiah calls a _new covenant;_ Jeremiah 31:31 and what kind of covenant? Not such a one as was made with their fathers; Jeremiah 31:32. This w...
E. A New Covenant Jeremiah 31:31-34 TRANSLATION (31) Behold, days are coming (oracle of the LORD) when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. (32) It will not be...
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: f...
31:34 neighbour, (f-10) Or 'friend,' as ch. 3.1....
1-22. Jeremiah speaks of the restoration first of Israel (Ephraim, Jeremiah 31:2), then of Judah (Jeremiah 31:23.). Those who survive the sufferings of the captivity are promised a safe journey home....
The sense is not that there shall be no longer any need of instruction in religion, but that for both Jews and Gentiles there shall be directness of access to God. It was left for later times to revea...
THEY SHALL TEACH NO MORE EVERY MAN HIS NEIGHBOUR... — We trace in that hope for the future the profound sense of failure which oppressed the mind of the prophet, as it has oppressed the minds of many...
וְ לֹ֧א יְלַמְּד֣וּ עֹ֗וד אִ֣ישׁ אֶת ־רֵעֵ֜הו
CHAPTER XXXI RESTORATION II THE NEW ISRAEL Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 30:1; Jeremiah 31:1;...
CHAPTER XXXIII RESTORATION IV THE NEW COVENANT Jeremiah 31:31: CF. Hebrews 8:1 "I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah."- Jeremiah 31:31 THE religious histo
Continuing, the Prophet dealt with the issues of restoration. He first described the restoration of the city. After affirming the ancient love of Jehovah for His people, he foretold the building of th...
And they shall (l) teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, saith the LORD:...
Lord. Christ himself came to instruct mankind. The true God was better known than ever, even by the illiterate. Yet God requires us to have recourse to men, in order to know his truths, as St. Paul wa...
The Holy Ghost hath himself given the comment of this passage, in Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, Chap. 8 which supersedes all that might be offered. I only beg to remind the Reader, while comparing bo...
_And no more shall every one teach his neighbor, and every one his brother, saying, Know ye Jehovah; for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will fo...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 31 AND 32. But it would not be Judah only, to whom the prophecies of Jeremiah were addressed, that should be restored-all the families of Israel should enjoy...
AND THEY SHALL TEACH NO MORE EVERY MAN HIS NEIGHBOUR, AND EVERY MAN HIS BROTHER,.... Which is not to be understood of the outward ministry of the word; in heaven indeed there will be no need of it, no...
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: fo...
_This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel_ That is, with those who are Israelites indeed, in _whom is no guile, John 1:47_, who are _Jews inwardly, Romans 2:29_, by the cir...
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, such admonitory instruction in the knowledge of Jehovah being no longer required; FOR THEY SHALL A...
THE NEW LIFE AND THE NEW COVENANT...
27-34 The people of God shall become numerous and prosperous. In Hebrews 8:8; Hebrews 8:9, this place is quoted as the sum of the covenant of grace made with believers in Jesus Christ. Not, I will gi...
This must not be so interpreted as if under the gospel there should be no more need of ministerial teaching, for Christ himself sent out his apostles to preach; nor yet as if there should be no more n...
Jeremiah 31:34 man H376 teach H3925 (H8762) neighbor H7453 man H376 brother H251 saying H559 (H8800) Know...
IN COMING DAYS YHWH WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH HIS PEOPLE, A COVENANT WRITTEN IN THEIR HEARTS (JEREMIAH 31:31). A covenant is an agreement made between two or more parties which is binding on both....
THE THREEFOLD PREDICTIONS CONCERNING ‘THE DAYS THAT ARE COMING' (JEREMIAH 31:27). We now come to a threefold prediction concerning the coming days, backed up by absolute assurances of their fulfilmen...
SUB-PART B. THE COMING DAYS WILL INTRODUCE A COMPLETELY NEW TYPE OF COVENANT PROVIDED BY YHWH, ONE THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE HEART AND WILL THUS RESULT IN CHANGED LIVES (JEREMIAH 31:23). This sub-part co...
Jeremiah 31:22. _For the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man._ Here is a prophecy of the birth of Immanuel, God with us, born of a woman by the supernatural power...
Jeremiah 31:27. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. And it shall come to pass, that like...
Jeremiah 31:29. _In these days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eatet...
Jeremiah 31:31. Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathe...
CONTENTS: Israel in the last days. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God will again at the end of the age take Israel into new covenant relation with Himself, from which they have for hundreds of years b...
Jeremiah 31:1. _At the same time,_ namely, as the last words of the preseding chapter, in the latter day. Here the subject is glorious, and the language sublime. Jeremiah 31:3. _I have loved thee with...
_They shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them._ GOOD THINGS TO COME A blessed season is here spoken of, very unlike what the world has hitherto seen. Such acquaintance wit...
_I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah._ THE NEW COVENANT The old and new covenants are placed in opposition to each other. The latter is represented as be...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 31:1 This chapter includes the most famous passage in Jeremiah 1:1, the promise of a new covenant (vv....
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 31:31 God’s people have a long-standing problem. Most are circumcised in body but so few are circumcised in heart (that is, truly KNOW THE LORD). God will remedy this problem...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_Vide_ on chap. 30. These two Chapter s form an unbroken prophecy, “a triumphal hymn of Israel’s salvation.” The former chapter pledges the recovery from captivity of bo...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 31:1 The promise of Jeremiah 30:22 is expressly declared to apply to both sections of the nation. Jehovah thus solemnly declares his purpose of mercy, and dwells with special Mad...
This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Jeremiah 31:1-40. Now there are those who say that God has cast off Israel as a nation forever, and that all of the blessings, all of the covenants and all of...
1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 John 2:20; 1 John 2:27; 1 John 5:20; 1 Samuel 2:12