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Typology

Read the old story again and Christ is already hidden in it, waiting to be seen

Typology reads people and events of the Old Testament as foreshadowings, or "types," of Christ and the Church. Paul calls the Exodus generation examples for believers in 1 Corinthians 10, and the Letter to the Hebrews reads the priesthood and sacrifices as pointing forward. Early writers like Melito of Sardis developed this approach, treating earlier figures as patterns whose deeper meaning is unveiled in the Gospel.

How it traveled

  1. Hebrews
    Rome · 67
    explains
  2. Matthew
    Antioch · 80
    explains
  3. Acts
    Rome · 84
    explains
  4. Luke
    Rome · 84
    explains
  5. John
    Ephesus · 100
    explains
  6. Dialogue with Trypho
    Rome · 165
    explains
  7. The First Apology
    Rome · 165
    explains
  8. Against Heresies: Book IV
    Lyons · 202
    explains
  9. On the Resurrection of the Flesh.
    — · 220
    explains
  10. An Answer to the Jews.
    — · 220
    explains
  11. Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John
    — · 303
    explains
  12. The Church History of Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
    explains
  13. Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations
    Mosul · 345
    applies
  14. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
    explains
  15. Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
    explains
  16. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  17. A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  18. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  19. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  20. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  21. Homilies on First Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  22. The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  23. The Letters of St. Jerome
    Bethlehem · 420
    applies
  24. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  25. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  26. Reply to Faustus the Manichæan
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  27. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  28. The Harmony of the Gospels
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  29. On Christian Doctrine
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  30. Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  31. Letters of St. Augustin
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  32. The Confessions
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  33. The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret
    Cyrrhus · 458
    explains
  34. Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)
    Paris · 1274
    explains
  35. Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90)
    Paris · 1274
    explains
  36. Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel
    Geneva · 1564
    explains
  37. Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church
    Geneva · 1564
    explains
  38. A History of the Work of Redemption
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
    explains
  39. Thoughts on the Revival of Religion in New England
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
    explains
  40. Fifteen Sermons. On Various Subjects
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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