What Does “Old and New Testament” Mean in the Bible?
The two parts of the Bible. The Old tells the story before Jesus; the New tells the story of Jesus and the apostles.
It can mean
- Why it has this name: here “testament” means “covenant.”
- How many books: 46 in the Old and 27 in the New.
Where it appears in the Bible
2 Corinthians 3:14
What the Bible says
2 Corinthians 3:14
But their senses were made dull. For, until this present day, the selfsame veil, in the reading of the old testament, remaineth not taken away (because in Christ it is made void).
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Catechism 120-121; RAE, “testamento”