Hebrews 8:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And they shall not teach every man— We are not to suppose that these words are designed to exclude all public and private, ministerial, family, and social instruction: for this is enforced in the New Testament institution of a gospel ministry, to continue to the consummation of all things (Matthew 28:20. Ephesians 4:11-13.); and in the obligation which it has laid upon Christian parents to bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord (Ephesians 6:4.); as also in the directions which are given in this very epistle (ch. Hebrews 3:13 and Hebrews 10:24-25.) to private Christians, to exhort one another daily, &c. This passage therefore must be taken, either in a comparative sense, as such expressions often are (see Isaiah 43:18. Jeremiah 23:18. Matthew 9:13.); or else with reference to that manner of teaching which was used and rested in under the obscurities of the Old Testament dispensation, and the corrupt interpretations of the Jewish doctors; or both may be included.