much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second” (cf. 12:24). Our covenantal context, therefore, is not the Mosaic covenant but the new covenant mediated by Jesus Christ. Just as Israel was to recall its redemptive context, namely, its deliverance from bondage in Egypt (Deut. 6:20–23), so we must continually remember our own redemptive