about Jesus. The five stones that David picked up represent the five wounds of Christ, or the five loaves he used to feed the crowd, or the five ministries that Christ has given to the church. He took them out of a stream, which was the Holy Spirit. And so on. This way of handling the Hebrew text is quite rightly now regarded as invalid and subjective. Unfortunately it is still around, and some preachers love that kind of clever speculation—which is usually all it is. Typology, then, to sum up, properly