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Hebrews 9:15-17
New Catholic Bible
Hebrews 9:15-17
New Catholic Bible
15 A Covenant Sealed with the Blood of Christ.[a] For this reason, he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who have been called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since his death has served to redeem the sins that were committed under the first covenant.
16 Now when a will is involved, it is obligatory to prove the death of the one who made it. 17 For a will takes effect only at death, since it has no force while the one who made it is still alive.
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- Hebrews 9:15 In the Jewish mind sacrifice and blood were reminders of atonement and Covenant (see Ex 24). The New Covenant is accomplished by the Paschal Mystery of Christ. In Greek, the word diathêkê signified both “covenant” and “testament”; it was easy to move from the one meaning to the other, as the author does in vv. 15 and 16.
