different stance. Pettegrew writes, “After His ascension, Christ inaugurated the New Covenant by pouring out the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. The New Testament thus becomes a New Covenant document … All the teaching about the Holy Spirit in the New Testament (especially about the ‘promise of the Spirit’; (Eph 1:13; Gal 3:14) is evidence that the New Covenant has been inaugurated.”11 Still Pettegrew sees more to come: “The church participates in the New Covenant, but the New Covenant will
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