The Types of Scripture (1)

"God" -- so the author of the epistle to the Hebrews sets out -- "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in times past unto the fathers, by the prophets …." The passage asserts that the speech of God varied as to manner. Not always did He avail Himself of the word. It pleased Him often to convey His thoughts to man by means of transactions. The sacrificial system of the old dispensation were so many transactions of which God availed Himself to transport thought from His own...