Jesus; the animal that took him to the inn was belief in the incarnation; the inn was the Church; the innkeeper was the apostle Paul! However, the Reformers reacted against this kind of interpretation and insisted that there must be some warrant in the text for making such identifications. Later, the term typology was coined as a better explanation for the way the New Testament authors used the Old Testament. It differed from allegory in two ways: first, while the original context and meaning is