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Samuel Mather wrote that \u201ctypes relate not only to the Person of Christ; but to his Benefits, and to all Gospel Truths and Mysteries, even to all New Testament Dispensations.\u201d To speak of \u201ctypes of Christ\u201d is thus not merely to speak of types fulfilled in Jesus, but types that \u201cshadowed forth Christ and all the good that comes by him.\u201d <\/p>\n
There is some continuity here with the Augustinian Totus Christus <\/em> as a principle of interpretation, but what striking is the discontinuity. Instead of seeing OT types as types of Christ and His body, the church <\/em> , Mather speaks of types of Christ and His benefits <\/em> . There\u2019s a sea-change in theology and hermeneutics in that difference. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Samuel Mather wrote that \u201ctypes relate not only to the Person of Christ; but to his Benefits, and to all Gospel Truths and Mysteries, even to all New Testament Dispensations.\u201d To speak of \u201ctypes of Christ\u201d is thus not merely to speak of types fulfilled in Jesus, but types that \u201cshadowed forth Christ and all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hermeneutics"],"yoast_head":"\n