The Old Covenant. The N8111 Covenant. Sinni, a palpable earthly mountain, sur- Zion, radiant with light and crowned with rounded by gloom and storm. the city of God. The angels through whom the Law was Fest.al choirs of &818mbled angel.a. gi \·en (cf. eh. ii. 2 ; Gal iii. 19 ; Acts vii. 53 ; Dent. xxili. 2), unseen by men, but operating in the winds and in the fire (cf. eh. i. 7). Israel congregated under the moontain, The accepted Church of the Firstbom, afraid, and forbidden to touch it. with free approach to the holiest of all. The LoBD, unapproachable, shrouded in The Judge of all, without his terrors, darkncaa or revealed in fire. accessible, and awarding rest to the per- fected. Moses, him.self afraid, and winning The Divine availing Mediator. : through hie mediation no o.ccess for the J_Jeople. The blood sprinkled on the people to The ever-cleansing blood of oomplete ratify the old covenant, but which could atonement. uot cleanse the conscience. The sound of a trumpet and the voice of The voice of that cleansing blood, speak- words, inspiring fear. ing of peace and pardon.
Snch ie the vision by the contemplation of they were perplexed and disheartened by which the inspired writer would a.rouse his what they found around them-by the oppo- readers, amid their trials and waverings, to sition of the world and the fewness of the realize the things tliat are etemo.l. He faithful-he bids them e.ssocialte themselves would have tLem pierce with the eye of in thought with those countless multitudes faith beyond this visible scene into the who were on their side. The picture ia, world invisible, which ie no less real. If indeed, in some respects, ideal; for the actual err. xn. 1-20.J THE EPISTLE TO THE H@RF,WS.