20Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
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For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-92)The apostle having just before been speaking of the promise made to Abraham, and representing that as the rule of our justification, and not the law, lest they should think he did too much derogate from the law, and render it altogether useless, he thence takes occasion to discourse of the design and tendency of it, and to acquaint us for what purposes it was given. It might be asked, “If that pro…
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