The Twelve Gemmed Crown; Christ in Hebrews (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...God commanded to you-ward." A most significant thing in this passage is the sprinkling of the blood both upon the book and upon all the people. Reference to this ceremony will be made later. The Mediator of the New Covenant. One of the chief topics of the Epistle is to exhibit the mediatorial status and functions of Jesus Christ. In contrast with the various forms of mediation in Judaism mention is made of the mediation of angels in giving the law, the mediation of Moses and Aaron, the mediation of Melchizedek, all in order to show the superiority of the mediatorial office of Christ who is the Mediator of the new and better covenant as is declared in 8:6, 7: "But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second." This new covenant then, into whose compact we are called, is made on God's initiative through Jesus Christ. And since where there is a testament or covenant there must also be the death of the testator, God, in the death of his Son, makes the sacrifice upon which this covenant rests, and in this initiative step on the part of God, which is the expression of his obligation toward men, consists the infinite superiority of Christianity to all other religious systems. "In the pagan conception God is wrathful; in the Christian conception God is love. In the pagan conception man is higher and better than the gods who are destroying him; in the Christian conception man is destroying himself in his own ignorance and sin. In the pagan conception sacrifice is offered by man to the gods; in the Christian conception it is offered by God f...