mediator, media tour

[Fr. médiateur, from Lat. media to rem, acc us. of mediator =one who comes between, a mediator, from mediatus, pa. par. of medio =to be in the middle; medius =the middle; Sp. & Port. mediad or; Ital media tore.] 1. One who mediates or interposes between parties at variance for the purpose of reconciliation or of effecting an agreement or arrangement; an arbitrator. "Thus authorized, the mediators speedily concluded a treaty."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. xxi. 2. Specifically, a term applied to Christ as the interce or between God and man. "There is one God, and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus." -1 Timothy ii. 5. The term mediator -Gr. mesités , literally, an intermediary, an interce or, a go-between, from mesos the middle, and eimi to go-is applied in the New Testament to Moses and to Christ. The former was invited to hold interviews with Jehovah, carrying me ages from him to the Israel it ish people and back again (Exod. xix. 3, 7, 8, 20, xx. 22, xxi. 1, .). He also interceded for them when they had sinned (xxxii. 30-32). The Jewish covenant or testament was "ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator" (Gal. iii. 19, R. V.); Jesus was the mediator of the new and better covenant or testament (Heb. viii. 6, ix. 15, xii. 24). In the fullest sense, that of an interce or, there is no mediator but Christ Jesus (1 Tim. ii. 5). Heever lives to make interce ion for those who come unto God by Him (Heb. vii. 25; cf. John xvii.). It is for His name's sake that sins are forgiven (Ephes. iv. 32; 1 John ii. 12).