The Covenant of Sinai (5)

We see then what is to be understood by what the writer of the epistle to the Hebrews calls the "first covenant". We see what he means by the "New Covenant." The "first covenant" was the true cov­enant of grace with symbolical-typical form and mini­stration. The "new covenant" was this same cov­enant of grace as freed from its symbolical-typical form and ministration. Thus essentially the "first" and the "new" covenant were one and the same covenant. We see then what is to be understood by...