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Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Hebrews 8:11

his neighbour Lit. "his fellow-citizen."

for all shall know me The secondpromise of the New Covenant is that there shall be no appropriationof knowledge; no sacerdotal exclusiveness; no learned caste that shall monopolise the keys of knowledge, and lock out those that desire to enter in. "Allthy children shall be taught of the Lord" (Isaiah 54:13), and all shall be "a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people."

all shall know me By virtue of the anointing of the Holy Spirit, which "teacheth us of all things" (1 John 2:27).

from the least to the greatest That is, from the eldest to the youngest (Genesis 19:11; Acts 8:10, &c.).

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