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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

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Intertextuality Pair

Hebrews 9:15 → Jeremiah 31:31-34

Allusion

Later text

Hebrews 9:15BSB

Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

Earlier text

Jeremiah 31:31-34BSB

Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them," declares the LORD. "But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people. No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more."

Significance

Having quoted Jeremiah 31:31-34 in full one chapter earlier (Heb 8:8-12), the author now draws the consequence: "Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant... now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant" (Heb 9:15). The phrase diathēkēs kainēs mesitēs ("mediator of a new covenant") carries Jeremiah's LXX terminology (kainē diathēkē, Jer 38:31 LXX). The verse exegetes two clauses of the oracle at once: it explains the broken covenant Jeremiah 31:32 named ("transgressions committed under the first covenant") and grounds the forgiveness Jeremiah 31:34 promised ("I will remember their sin no more") in a death that actually redeems. Jeremiah announced forgiveness but did not say how a just God could remember sin no more; Hebrews answers: a death has occurred. The "promised eternal inheritance" is the new covenant's content now secured. The significance lands on Christ the Mediator — the better covenant is desirable precisely because its forgiveness is purchased, not presumed, and the inheritance it confers is eternal and unbreakable, resting on his blood rather than on Israel's failed "we will do."

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme

▸ The New Covenant

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Jeremiah 31:31-34 — The New Covenant

Hebrews 9:15 → Jeremiah 31:31-34

Significance

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