is only later that the word covenant is used (2 Sam 23:5, Ps 89:3). One also needs to bear in mind Fesko’s comment that, “the absence of a particular term does not entail the absence of a particular concept.”35 The question to ask, at least as far as this work is concerned is: does the covenant made with Adam exhibit the characteristics of a conditional arrangement? The answer must surely be yes. It was nothing less than that a conditional promise made by a superior to an inferior. As John Owen put