Covenant of Life

In discussion Jesus reply to the Sadducees in Matthew 19, John Paul II makes this brief comment abut the meaning of covenant: “Although, due to sin, bodily death has become man’s lot and access to the tree of Life . . . was denied to him . . . , nevertheless, when the living God enters his covenant with man (Abraham, the patriarchs, Moses, Israel), he continually renews in this covenant the very reality of Life, reveals again its prospects, and in some way opens up again the access to teh tree of Life.”