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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hebrews 8:12 - 8:12
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For, etc. - the third of “the better promises” (Heb 8:6). The forgiveness of sins is, and will be, the root of this new state of inward grace and knowledge of the Lord. Sin being abolished, sinners obtain grace.
I will be merciful - Greek, “propitious”; the Hebrew, “salach,” is always used of God only in relation to men.
and their iniquities - not found in Vulgate, Syriac, Coptic, and one oldest Greek manuscript; but most oldest manuscripts have the words (compare Heb 10:17).
remember no more - Contrast the law, Heb 10:3.