synagogue. Their content was so persuasive that they were recognized as authentic, trustworthy, and authoritative testimonies to the Word of God. Evangelical theology hears witness of the Old Testament with the greatest earnestness and not merely as a sort of prelude to the New Testament. The classic rule is Novum Testamentum in Vetere latet, Vetus in Novo patet: the New Testament is concealed within the Old, and the Old Testament is revealed by the New. As long as theology preferred to neglect this
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