poetic style and NT use of Jeremiah 31:33-34

Jonathan Robie jonathan.robie at datadirect-technologies.com
Sat Jan 4 20:48:59 EST 2003


Hi David,

This mailing list is more for technical aspects of working with texts in 
biblical languages, including fonts and such issues. There are other 
mailing lists for discussing biblical languages, but I think you are really 
interested in exegesis and theology, rather than the languages per se.

Does anybody have suggestions where David can take this question, without 
background in Hebrew or Greek?

Jonathan

At 07:54 PM 1/4/2003 -0500, david merrill wrote:
>Hi all
>I was wondering if you could help me as I'm not a Hebrew Greek scholar.
>The new covenant promises as stated in Jere.31 as you know are repeated in
>Heb. 8 and 10. What is the consensus on the Hebrew structure of "I will
>put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts" and the
>phrase "for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin
>no more". These seem to be clearly synonymous parallelisms and not
>sequential as in "first I will forgive your iniquity and then later I will
>remember your sin no more". Some split this verse in this way to justify a
>doctrine that says we still have a record in heaven until some distant
>point when probation is over THEN God will remember our sin no more.
>Hebrews takes great liberty to switch mind and heart and forgive and
>remember no more which seems to clearly show that these A/B phrases are
>synonymous--am I right in this. Some say that the verse in Jere. 31 and
>Hebrews doesn't say WHEN God remembers our sin no more but if remember no
>more MEANS or is God's definition of forgiveness then when forgiveness
>happens then "remember no more" happens. Hebrews 10:17,18 clearly seems to
>indicate that.
>I sure would be grateful for a reply and any exegetical work that has on
>these verses.
>
>Thank you so very much--David Merrill
>
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