“The new is in the old concealed; the old is in the new revealed.” (St. Augustine) The Bible is filled with patterns, types, and shadows of things to come. Unlike any other book, the nuggets of truth that can be mined from each of its pages are inexhaustible. One... ...
To this end the author and the restorer of the old dispensation talk with the founder of the new, as if his scheme, even the most repulsive feature of it, was contemplated by theirs, as the reality of which they had promulgated only types and shadows. Secondly, to teach that the new ...
There are many types and shadows that point directly to YESHUAH in the OT. Let’s take a look at Genesis 22. Here YAHWEH gives an example of the sacrifice of HIS Son YESHUAH as a sacrifice for our sins as HE promised in Genesis 3:15. YAHWEH commanded Abraham to offer up His Son ...
These are not types or shadows of things, but archetypes and perennial truths, whence all things sensible derive their essential constitution, and the broken and imperfect truth which they contain. It is a second cardinal tenet of Plotinus, in which he diverges from Plato, that ideas are ...
We are also called “the light of the world” by Jesus in Matthew 5:14. As the moon has no light of its own, but only reflects the light of the sun to shine in the night sky, so are we to reflect the Light of the world during the dark night hours, shining amidst the shadows....
appear to refer to the actual history of another king; but only those who deny the existence of types and prophecy will consider this as an evidence against an ulterior allusion to Messiah; such psalms are 45, 68, 69, 72. The advance in clearness in this period is great. The name of ...
And the shadows of the Moirai are spiked by three rays. Caesar enters the stage. He is almost invisible through the magnificent crowd around him. One can only see the long tanned back of his head. Appendix C. Jaan Kaplinski (1941–2021), Ten Poems From WHITE BUTTERFLIES OF THE NIGHT (...