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'New Covenant' in the Bible

Whereas God does find fault with the people of that covenant, when he says: The day is coming, saith the Lord, when I will conclude a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be on the lines of the covenant I made with their fathers,

By saying 'a new covenant,' he antiquates the first. And whatever is antiquated and aged is on the verge of vanishing.