Chapter 37

SCRIPTURAL TYPES--1. Types distinguished from Analogy--2. And from the Foreshadowing of Future Events by the Present--3. The Type defined in its Three Essential Characters

I. _Historical Types_--4. In Respect to these Two Extremes to be avoided--Typical History has a Proper Significance of its Own--This illustrated by Examples: The Kingly Office; the Prophetical Office; Typical Transactions--Remarks on the Inadequacy of All Types

II. _Ritual Types_--5. The Sacrifices the Essential Part of the Mosaic Ritual--What is implied in them--The Sanctuary God's Visible Dwelling-place where alone they could be offered--6. The Mosaic Tabernacle described--7. Its General Typical Import--8. Significance of its Different Parts and Appointments--Preciousness of the Materials; Gradation in this Respect--9. The Inner Sanctuary with its Appointments--10. The Outer Sanctuary with its Appointments--11. The Brazen Altar with its Laver--The Levitical Priests typified Christ--12. The Levitical Sacrifices typified Christ's Offering of Himself for the Sins of the World--This shown from Scripture--General Remark respecting Christ's Propitiatory Sacrifice--13. Characteristics of the Types Themselves--The Levitical Priests had a Common Human Nature with those for whom they officiated; were appointed to their Office by God; were Mediators between God and the People; and Mediators through Propitiatory Sacrifices--Points of Dissimilarity between the Type and the Antitype--Remarks on the Central Idea of Priesthood--14. Scriptural Idea of Sacrifice the Offering of One Life in Behalf of Another-- Classification of the Levitical Sacrifices with the Ideas belonging to Each: Sin and Trespass Offerings; Burnt Offerings; Peace-Offerings--Sacrificial Nature of the Passover--Other Sacrifices of a Special Character--All Sacrificial Victims to be without Blemish--The Unbloody Offerings and their Signification--15. Typical Transactions connected with the Sacrifices and Oblations: The Laying of the Offerer's Hands on the Head of the Victim; the Waving and Heaving of Offerings; the Sprinkling of the Victim's Blood; the Burning of the Offering--16. Typical Meaning of the Tabernacle as a Whole--The Several Points of Adumbration considered: Adumbration of God's Presence with Men; Impossibility of approaching God without a Mediator; Adumbration of Christ's Expiatory Sacrifice and Heavenly Intercession on the Great Day of Atonement; Burning of the Victim without the Camp--17. Distinctions between Clean and Unclean--Levitical View of Bodily Infirmities