Elijah (Luke 1:17), although there was a strong tradition that Elijah would return in the physical sense (cf. Matt. 11:14; 17:10 ff.; Mark 9:11 ff.; also John 1:21). Thus the representative prophet, priest, and king are already idealized in the Old Testament to point the way to their fulfillment in the New. There are three classes of types used in the New Testament writings, namely, institutions, historical events, and persons. To be sure, most of these are not designated by the word ‘type’ in the