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to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
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Jesus: The Climax of Faith
Commentators emphasize that Jesus is the pinnacle of the new reality Christians have entered. Unlike the terrifying encounter with God at Mount Sinai, believers now come directly to Jesus, the mediator who establishes a new, personal relationship with God. He is the one who brings God and humanity together, making Him the central focus of our faith.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant. This was the crowning excellence of the new dispensation, in contrast to the old. They had …
To Jesus (Ιησου). This great fact is not to be overlooked (Php 2:10f.). He is there as Lord and Saviour and still "Jesus."
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19th Century
Anglican
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant.—Rather, a new covenant. There is another change in the Greek which it is n…
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Baptist
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, And the sou…
The climax is reached with the reference to Jesus, seen here as “the mediator of a new covenant” (). The covenant involves “sprinkled blood” (cf. 9…
16th Century
Protestant
And to Jesus the Mediator, He adds this lastly, because it is He alone through whom the Father is reconciled to us, and who renders His fa…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And to Jesus, the Mediator of the new covenant Of the new covenant, and, of Christ's being the Mediator of it, (…
Mount Sinai, on which the Jewish church-state was formed, was a mountain that could be touched (though the people were forbidden to do so)—a place …
13th Century
Catholic
Having warned them to avoid the evils of guilt, the Apostle now provides the reason, which is based on a comparison between the Old and New Testame…
