down’ that Capernaum must signify the lowest stratum of reality, i.e. the world of matter, and that the reason why Christ apparently neither accomplished nor said anything there must be that the material order was uncongenial to Him. Typological exegesis worked along very different lines. Essentially it was a technique for bringing out the correspondence between the two Testaments, and took as its guiding principle the idea that the events and personages of the Old were ‘types’ of, i.e. prefigured