The Types of Scripture (4)

The matter to which we began to apply ourselves is whether the believers of the old covenant were taught and empowered to read in the shadows any reference to future realities. It was averred that the shadows did in­deed speak to the believers of good things to come. They did so in that they (the shadows) were accompanied by the word of prophecy. The events of the new dispensa­tion were declared, exhibited by means of the spoken word as well as by means of the symbols. These two, the symbol and...