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A survey of two literary devices that are indispensable for understanding salvation history. A biblical type is a person, place, or thing in salvation history that corresponds to a later person, place, or thing in the scriptural text. An allegory is a passage that says one thing in order to say something else. Both are common literary devices in the Bible that are vital for understanding truths...

of God, the Lord who acts in history, and it finds expression in the Old Testament as well as the New.”1 Second, typology requires the unity of Holy Scripture. Scripture is the inspired record of God’s will and ways in salvation history, and from Genesis to Revelation the biblical authors tell the grand story of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation. Patterns abound because the God of providence established the unity of Scripture. The unity of Scripture is the result
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