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Heb_8:8. Making good of the assertion, Heb_8:7, that the Old Covenant was not free from fault, and God on that account made known His purpose of establishing a New one. Since μεμθόμενος manifestly corresponds to the ἄμεμπτος , Heb_8:7, and there the non-freedom from blame regards the covenant itself, not the possessors thereof, it is more natural to combine αὐτοῖς with λέγει (Faber Stapulensis, Piscator, Schlichting, Grotius, Limborch, Peirce, Michaelis, Chr. Fr. Schmid, Storr, Kuinoel, Klee, Bleek, Stein, Bloomfield, Reiche, Comment, crit. p. 65 sq.; Conybeare, Moll, Kurtz, Ewald, M‘Caul, and others) than—what is certainly possible in a grammatical respect (see the Lexicons)—to join it to μεμφόμενος (Peshito, Vulgate, Chrysostom, Oecumenius, Theophylact, Luther, Calvin, Beza, Er. Schmid, Bengel, Wolf, Carpzov, Heinrichs, Böhme, Stengel, Bisping, Delitzsch, Alford, Maier, Hofmann, al.).
λέγει ] sc. ὁ θεός . Comp. the thrice-occurring λέγει κύριος in the following citation (Heb_8:8-10).
αὐτοῖς λείγει ] He saith unto them, namely, the possessors of the πρώτη διαθήκη .
The citation beginning with ἰδού , and extending to the close of Heb_8:12, is from Jeremiah 31. (LXX. 38):31–34, after the LXX., with slight deviations.
λέγει κύριος ] so in the LXX. of the Cod. Alex. The Cod. Vatican, and others have φησὶ κύριος .
In place of καὶ συντελέσω ἐπὶ τὸν οἶκον Ἰσραὴλ καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν οἶκον Ἰούδα , it reads in the LXX.: καὶ διαθήσομαι τῷ οἴκῳ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ τῷ οἴκῳ Ἰούδα . Perhaps a change designedly made in order to characterize the New Covenant as a completed or perfect one.