The Two Testaments

The Christian Bible is always organized in two sections: the books written before the coming of Christ in the flesh are called the books of the Old Testament, and those written after, the books of the New Testament. The two are inseparable, for, in the celebrated words of Blessed Augustine, “the New Testament lies hidden in the Old, and the Old is unveiled in the New” (Blessed Augustine, Questions on the Heptateuch, 2.73).