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The Typology of Scripture: Viewed in Connection with the Whole Series of the Divine Dispensations, Vols. I & II is unavailable, but you can change that!

Fairbairn’s Typology of Scripture was the standard text on typology in its day, forging connections not only with the Bible, but with all Christian doctrine. This first volume of The Typology of Scripture: Viewed in Connection with the Entire Scheme of the Divine Dispensations begins with an inquiry into the principles of typical interpretation, to determine the real nature and design of types,...

has he expressed himself regarding the interpretation of Old Testament Scripture, that by some he has been understood to hold, that there is a fourfold, by others a threefold, and by others again only a twofold sense, in the sacred text. The truth appears to be, that while he advocated usually a threefold use or application of Scripture, he regarded it as susceptible of only a twofold sense. In respect, however, to his mode of extracting and dealing with the typical matter of bygone dispensations,
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