A DISCLAIMER AND A RESPONSE I certainly do not intend to suggest that the Old Testament elect were given all the information about Christ that the New Testament contains about his person and work. Vos has rightly observed that “it is unhistorical to carry back into the O.T. mind our developed doctrinal consciousness of these matters.”32 On the other hand, it is possible to address the issue of the Old Testament saints’ understanding of redemption so one-sidedly from the “biblical-theological”