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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...

fleeing the will of God when he descended for three days into the fish without dying, while Jesus was fulfilling the will of God when he descended for three days into the grave as a dead man. The relationship between type and antitype will also have escalation. While priests and Jesus offered sacrifices, the sacrifice of Jesus was better. While Jonah and Jesus both experienced a descent for three days, Jesus was not alive in a fish but dead in the grave. While the ark and baptism both bring people
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