...alleged for this denomination, may also as well be rendered testament ; 'for if the Jirst testament had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second ;' and thus the same Greek word is often translated testament ; and then the difficulty is easily removed....

...Mediator of a better covenant which was es" tablished upon better promises. For if the first cove" nant had been faultless, then should no place have " been...the house of Judah : not according to " the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the " day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of " the...

...neither in themselves, nor in their institution ; and of the Mosaic institutions, it is expressly said, " Finding fault with them, he saith, behold the days...saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah." Heb. viii, 8. Now what was this new covenant? It...

...never have been designed for perpetual continuance in the gospel state, but only to lead unto it. " For if that first covenant had been faultless, then...should no place have been sought for the second." Heb. viii. 7. John's baptismas well as the passover, was under the first covenant, and noproper part...

...how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then...the house of Judah : not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land...

..."Which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ; — defective, Heb. viii. 7, 9, 13. " For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by the hand...

...Christ came; in this latter sense the very same words here are repeated in the epistle to the Hebrews, " d, that he might destroy the works of the devil," 1 John 3:8. And the seve the house of Israel, and the house of Judah. In that he saitb, A new covenant, he hath made the first...

...lit does so only in compliance with a divine declaration, to that effect, uttered long before:—" If that first covenant had been faultless, then should...saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah." And if the author of this treatise does not vilify...

...much • also he is the Mediator of a better covenant which was established upon better promises. — For finding fault with them he saith, Behold the days...the house of Judah ; not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land...

...if the first covenant had been faultless, there should no place have been sought for the second. But finding fault with them, he saith, Behold the days...saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and the house of Judah. Not according to my covenant which I made with their fathers,...