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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,...

indispensably require the reality of the facts or circumstances stated in the original narrative. And they differ also from the other, in requiring, beside this, that the same truth on principle be embodied alike in the type and the antitype. The typical is not properly a different or higher sense, but a different or higher application of the same sense. Returning, then, to the writings of the Fathers, and using the expressions typical and allegorical in the senses now respectively ascribed to them,
Volume 1, Page 3
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