Isaac Does Not Need to Be Sacrificed

Protestant Reformed Theological Journal Vol. 44, No. 2 68 tion between two kinds of connection to the covenant, whether the distinction is called “internal/external”; “covenant/administration of the covenant”; or “of the covenant/in the covenant.” How the distinction is phrased is of no great significance. The distinction itself is fundamental. To disallow the distinction is to fly in the face of the Reformed tradition; to reject the apostolic doctrine in Romans 9:6-23; and, necessarily, to...