that is fulfilled in Christ: one would move in the sermon from the type to the Antitype. And the same holds when the text relates a theme which is further developed in the New Testament: one would move in the sermon from the Old Testament theme to its latest development in the New Testament. Sometimes the classification of “textual preaching” is misunderstood as preaching only the message of the selected text. But the term “textual preaching” was coined to
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