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The New Covenant Predicted
The author of Hebrews quotes the prophet Jeremiah to show that God promised a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. In this covenant, God will put his laws in their minds and write them on their hearts; all will know the Lord, and he will no longer remember their sins – unlike the old covenant which the people broke.
Hébreux 8,8-12
8For God finds fault with them when he says: "Look, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
μεμφόμενος γὰρ ⸀αὐτοὺς λέγει· Ἰδοὺ ἡμέραι ἔρχονται, λέγει κύριος, καὶ συντελέσω ἐπὶ τὸν οἶκον Ἰσραὴλ καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν οἶκον Ἰούδα διαθήκην καινήν,
9It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, for they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and so I turned away from them, declares the Lord.
οὐ κατὰ τὴν διαθήκην ἣν ἐποίησα τοῖς πατράσιν αὐτῶν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἐπιλαβομένου μου τῆς χειρὸς αὐτῶν ἐξαγαγεῖν αὐτοὺς ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου, ὅτι αὐτοὶ οὐκ ἐνέμειναν ἐν τῇ διαθήκῃ μου, κἀγὼ ἠμέλησα αὐτῶν, λέγει κύριος.
10This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
ὅτι αὕτη ἡ διαθήκη ἣν διαθήσομαι τῷ οἴκῳ Ἰσραὴλ μετὰ τὰς ἡμέρας ἐκείνας, λέγει κύριος, διδοὺς νόμους μου εἰς τὴν διάνοιαν αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐπὶ καρδίας αὐτῶν ἐπιγράψω αὐτούς, καὶ ἔσομαι αὐτοῖς εἰς θεόν καὶ αὐτοὶ ἔσονταί μοι εἰς λαόν.
11No longer will anyone teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
καὶ οὐ μὴ διδάξωσιν ἕκαστος τὸν πολίτην αὐτοῦ καὶ ἕκαστος τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ, λέγων· Γνῶθι τὸν κύριον, ὅτι πάντες εἰδήσουσίν με ἀπὸ ⸀μικροῦ ἕως μεγάλου αὐτῶν.
12For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more."
ὅτι ἵλεως ἔσομαι ταῖς ἀδικίαις αὐτῶν, καὶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ⸀αὐτῶν οὐ μὴ μνησθῶ ἔτι.