The Types of Scripture (2)

In our previous article on this subject we applied our­selves to the past state of the particular department of theological science known as Typology. We dwelt, rather at length, upon the typological views of the fathers of the early church. We attended to the manner in which the Christian fathers were wont to deal with Scripture. The Greek fathers, so we saw, were wont to allegorize the historical events of Scripture. Their vicious mode of interpretation was exposed and warned against. It was...