![]() Paul (I Cor., xi, 25) Jesus Christ uses the words “new testament” as meaning the alliance established by Himself between God and the world, and this is called “new” as opposed to that of which Moses was the mediator. However, at an early date, the Alexandrian translators of the Scripture, known as the Septuagint, employed the word as the equivalent of the Hebrew berith, which means a pact, an alliance, more especially the alliance of Yahweh with Israel. With the profane authors this latter term means always, one passage of Aristophanes perhaps excepted, the legal disposition a man makes of his goods for after his death. Testament comes from testamentum, the word by which the Latin ecclesiastical writers translated the Greek diath?k?.
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