The Reformed Room
This room reads the two Testaments as one covenant of grace, differently administered — Abraham's stars, Sinai's blood, Jeremiah's promise written on the heart, all one account of a God who binds Himself by oath to a people who cannot keep theirs. The plain sense of the text governs here, and Scripture interprets Scripture.
The marriage covenant is this room's native grammar: what Hosea calls betrothal, the Reformed confessions call covenant. Every passage below opens in the reader with this room's lens.
Sit with these first
- Genesis 15:1–18
The covenant cut with Abram — God alone passes between the pieces, bearing both sides of the oath.
- Exodus 24:1–8
The covenant sealed in blood at Sinai — “all that the LORD has said we will do.”
- Jeremiah 31:31–34
The new covenant promised — the law written on the heart, the marriage remade after the exile.
- Romans 8:28–39
The golden chain — foreknown, predestined, called, justified, glorified — and nothing able to separate.
- Ephesians 1:3–14
“Chosen in Him before the foundation of the world” — election as comfort, not puzzle.
- Hebrews 8
The mediator of a better covenant — the old administration fulfilled, not discarded.
This room’s thread in the tracks
The Jewish Wedding Tradition track reads here as covenant theology: the betrothal at Sinai as the covenant of works' shadow and the covenant of grace's promise, the bride-price paid in full, and the marriage supper as the covenant's consummation.
This room’s shelf
- Geneva Bible
the Reformation exiles' own English Bible, the one the Puritans carried
- King James Version
the Geneva's successor, made by the covenant's heirs
Voices seated here
These commentators keep their notes in the margins — switch on the Annotated view (under Aa in the reader) to hear them beneath the verses:
- John Calvin
- Ulrich Zwingli
- Augustine of Hippo