the final saving event, the final saving person, the final saving ceremony, etc.’51 For example, Old Testament prophets anticipated and looked for a new David, a new exodus, a new covenant and a new city of God: the old had thus become a type of the new and was important in pointing forward to it.52 Subsequently, the New Testament authors saw in Christ and his work the fulfilment, or antitype, of these prophetic hopes. There are several important components in typology. First, typology pays careful