Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 8:11

11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour , and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

The subject implyed in the Plural Verb, and by a partitive Particle expressed they and every one, is in Ieremiah's Text [non-Latin text not transcribed] a Man, even every truly Covenanted-One who hath the knowledg of the Lord. They shall not teach any more, in Ier. 31.34. A double Negative supplieth in this Verse [non-Latin text not transcribed]; denying that weak and fruitless kind of Teaching which was under the Mosaica[illegible: 1 letter] Covenant-Administration, whereby Souls were not savingly edified in the Knowledg of God; there was imperfection both in their Knowledg and Teaching, which should not be under the Gospel.

Such as are nearer to each other in Society or Commerce, a Fellow Citizen; or are near by Relation, by Nature of Alliance, by Consanguinity or Affinity, one near at hand, ignorant of the Lord, and that needs instruction, one capable and possible to be taught.

This intimates the manner of Teaching denied, a formal customary way of Teaching, saying, it was proverbial with them, and so was the matter of it, Know the Lord, as they used to say, the Temple of the Lord, Ierem. 7.4. The Burden of the Lord, Ier. 23.34. The day of the Lord, Amos 5.18. or otherwise not to teach them to know the Lord notionally only, without any influence on their heart, without believing, loving, fearing or obeying him, 1 Iohn 2.3, 4. or to teach them to know the Lord, as redeeming and delivering of them out of Egypt, or out of the Land of the North, that is, bringing them back from their Captivity in Babylon, as they were taught Exod. 20.2. and Ier. 23.7, 8. But as delivering them from Sin, the Curse, Wrath and Hell. Or, they shall not teach one another so darkly, slenderly and imperfectly in the meaning of Types, Shadows and Ceremonies, that they might know the Lord in Truth, and worship him according to his Mind; or to take so much pains to instruct them concerning the Lord and his Worship, as they took with the Gentiles when they proselyted them.

For under the Gospel-administration all the Covenanted-Ones, the Infant in the Church, and the Aged, Isai. 65.20. All Ages in Christ, Children, Fathers and Young Men, as 1 Iohn 2.12, 13, 14. Young and Old shall have his Laws put into their Minds, and written on their hearts, the true saving knowledg of him in Christ in the fulness of it, as Isa. 11.9. they shall so perfectly know him, so as not to depart from him; he shall be theirs, and they his by an Everlasting Covenant, ordered in all things and sure; by the plentiful effusion of his Spirit in all the Gifts and Graces of it through his Gospel-Institutions on them; they shall be so enlightned in Gospel-Truths, that they shall know their Duties, and perform them, as if they were immediately enlightned from above, rather than by the common methods of teaching by his Word, that they shall not need so much cautioning, threatning, correcting as they did under the Law; but shall intirely cleave to him, without a disposition to revolt.

Marginal references: John 6.45. 1 John 2.27.