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,