“Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.”
'Not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord' — Jeremiah's contrast between the broken Sinai covenant and the coming new covenant becomes the basis for Hebrews' argument for a superior priesthood and sanctuary. The fathers' failure to continue in covenant relationship reveals the law's limitation: external commandments inscribed on stone cannot produce covenant faithfulness.
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