According to Hebrews, the Old Testament is like the M40 without its final section; and the final section, which gets you to your destination, is Jesus himself—specifically, the sacrifice with which he brings into being the new covenant. The argument of Hebrews runs like this: the Jewish scriptures are continually pointing beyond themselves to a further reality which they do not themselves contain. More particularly, they are pointing to a great act of salvation, of dealing with sin, which they do