so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled, which says, I will open my mouth in parables. I will utter things concealed from the foundation of the world.

Now all these things happened to those men for examples, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the ends of the ages came.

For

For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and it corresponds to the present Jerusalem, and is in bondage with her children.

And after taking bread, having expressed thanks, he broke in pieces, and gave to them, saying, This is my body that is given for you. Do ye this in my memory.

and they all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them. And the rock was the Christ.

The two

Brothers (I speak according to a man), in the same way of a man, no man annuls or adds to a contract that has been ratified.

By so much, Jesus has become the surety of a better covenant.

But now he has obtained a superior ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a superior covenant, which has been enacted upon superior promises.

And because of this he is mediator of a new covenant, so that a death having occurred for the redemption of the transgressions against the first covenant, those who are called might take the promise of the eternal inheritance.

And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, after indeed foretelling,

and to Jesus a mediator of a new covenant, and to blood of sprinkling that speaks better than Abel.

Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep by the blood of an eternal covenant--our Lord Jesus--

Which

Stand firm therefore in the liberty in which Christ freed us, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

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

General references

And LORD spoke to Moses on mount Sinai, saying,