The Covenant of Sinai (1)

1.  The covenant at Sinai was the covenant of grace. It was thus the very covenant that the Lord established with our first parents right after the fall when he said, "I will set enmity…" the very cove­nant that he established with Noah and later with Abraham as the father of all believers. The truth of this statement is born out by the fact that the promise by which the Lord bound Himself to the people of Israel first in Egypt, later at Sinai, was in the final instance the promise not of...