The next day Moses said to the people, you have committed a great sin. But now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin. The perhaps acknowledges that the outcome is not certain — Moses does not presume on God's forgiveness but goes to intercede without knowing whether it will succeed. Hebrews 4:16 says let us approach God's throne of grace with confidence — the confidence of new covenant prayer is grounded in the certain intercession of Christ, where Moses' perhaps becomes a definite will. The hesitancy of Moses' perhaps and the certainty of Christ's always lives to intercede measure the distance between the two covenants.

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