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Posted by on January 24, 2008, 1:16 pm
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that a
new covenant shall be made; that the law shall be renewed; that the precepts
which they have received are not good; that their sacrifices are abominable;
that God has demanded none of them.
It is said, on the contrary, that the law shall abide for ever; that this
covenant shall be for ever; that sacrifice shall be eternal; that the
sceptre shall never depart from among them, because it shall not depart from
them till the eternal King comes.
Do all these passages indicate what is real? No. Do they then indicate what
is typical? No, but what is either real or typical. But the first passages,
excluding as they do reality, indicate that all this is only typical.
All these passages together cannot be applied to reality; all can be said to
be typical; therefore they are not spoken of reality, but of the type.
Agnus occisus est ab origine mundi.135 A sacrificing judge.
686. Contradictions.--The sceptre till the Messiah--without king or prince.
The eternal law--changed.
The eternal covenant--a new covenant.
Good laws--bad pre
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