so that that should be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the world's foundation.

Now all these things happened to them as types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

For

For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which is now, for she is in bondage with her children;

And having taken a loaf, when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave it to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.

and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed them: (now the rock was the Christ;)

The two

Brethren, (I speak according to man,) even man's confirmed covenant no one sets aside, or adds other dispositions to.

by so much Jesus became surety of a better covenant.

But now he has got a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is mediator of a better covenant, which is established on the footing of better promises.

And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

And the Holy Spirit also bears us witness of it; for after what was said:

and to Jesus, mediator of a new covenant; and to the blood of sprinkling, speaking better than Abel.

But the God of peace, who brought again from among the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, in the power of the blood of the eternal covenant,

Which

Christ has set us free in freedom; stand fast therefore, and be not held again in a yoke of bondage.

For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

General references

And Jehovah spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying,