9:15 Christ’s death inaugurates the new covenant, even as it brings redemption from the curse that rested on violators of the first covenant. See “Christ the Mediator” at 1 Tim. 2:5.

redeems. A payment to release someone from captivity (cf. v. 12). Violation of God’s covenant creates a liability to condemnation that can only be satisfied through the violator’s death, or by redemption through a substitute.