the fulfillment of the Old Covenant: “Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things about himself in all the Scriptures” (Luke 24:27). The Gospel writers for their part presented Jesus as the typological fulfillment of the Old Covenant: as the new Moses, the new David, the new Solomon, and the new Temple. In their catechesis, the Church Fathers explained the many ways Christ fulfilled the realities and events of the Old Covenant. They explained that figures, or
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