Calvin insisted, along with the medieval theologians, that the Old Covenant saints communed with Christ and were saved in and by Him. The Old Testament, as Calvin understood it, was an exhibition of the gospel under the veil of figures and shadows. As with the medieval monks, Calvin’s goal in studying the Old Testament was to know Christ and to serve Him, promptly and sincerely. Modern Christianity, by contrast, has not quite known what to do with the Old Testament; or, better, it has known precisely