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new covenant

noun

  1. (sometimes initial capital letters) (in Christian exegesis) the promises of salvation made by God to humans individually, based on divine grace rather than Mosaic Law.


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Besides, that oath was sworn to him as not merely a priest, but as the Surety and Mediator of the new covenant.

Being a new Covenant blessing, the new heart is a new Covenant sign.

The new covenant of which Paul speaks necessarily implies an old one; and the old one is this covenant with Israel.

The new covenant deals with the same fundamental conceptions which dominated the former one.

In this way the new covenant realises what the former covenant demanded.

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