After describing how Christ was the Mediator of a new covenant through His death, the writer now starts to use a particular kind of covenant. Earlier in speaking of the new covenant, he was not particularly treating it like a will, but after declaring that Christ is the Mediator of the new covenant, he treats it like a will. In the NKJV, at this point in time the translators also start to translate the same word 'testament,' rather than 'covenant.' It is the same word in Greek. Treating the new covenant as a will means that it required the death of the one that entered into the covenant and that it could have no power at all while the testator lives. Until his death, the person who made the will could rewrite it at any time, so it could have no power at all before the death of the one writing the will. He then writes that this was pointed to with the first covenant, because with the first covenant, not the blood of the testator, but the blood of bulls and calves was shed pointing to the blood that was required. The shedding of blood was required to be delivered from sin. Under the first covenant, it was only a spiritual picture. In the new covenant, the spiritual delivery from sin is real.
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