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11. οὐ μὴ διδάξωσιν. Dawes’s canon that only the second aor. subj. act. and mid. is used after οὐ μὴ is at any rate inapplicable to the N.T. (see Rev 18:14), nor does Hermann’s canon on the difference of meaning between οὐ μὴ with the fut. and with the aor. subj. remain valid in Hellenistic Greek. See Winer, pp. 635, 636.
τὸν πολίτην αὐτοῦ. Lit., “his fellow-citizen.” The repetition ἕκαστος … καὶ ἕκαστος is a sort of echo of the Hebrew idiom “the man to his brother,” Winer, p. 217.
πάντες. The second promise of the New Covenant is that there shall be no appropriation of knowledge; no sacerdotal exclusiveness; no learned caste that shall monopolise the keys of knowledge, and lock out those that desire to enter in. “All thy children shall be taught of the Lord” (Isa 54:13), and all shall be “a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a peculiar people.”
εἰδήσουσιν. This form of the future εἰδήσω from εἰδέω is Ionic and extremely rare. It is found in Isocrates, but does not occur elsewhere in the LXX. or N.T.: see Veitch, Greek Verbs, p. 187.
εἰδήσουσίν με. By virtue of the anointing of the Holy Spirit, which “teaches us of all things” (1Jn 2:27).
ἀπὸ μικροῦ κ.τ.λ. That is, from the eldest to the youngest (Gen 19:11; Act 8:10, &c.).