Typology

'When I see the blood, I will pass over you' -> redeemed 'with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish.'

1 Pet 1:18-19; TSK

The Passover lamb -> 'Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.' Depth-2 cross-link from the lintel scene.

1 Cor 5:7

'the LION of the tribe of Judah hath overcome' - Judah's scepter, the tree's trunk, realized.

PD-quot

Abel's accepted blood-sacrifice -> the acceptable sacrifice of Christ. Pairs with the Abel scene.

Gen 4:4; Heb 11:4; 12:24; Fairbairn 1845

Hebrews quotes 'the blood of the covenant' (Exod 24:8) verbatim as the shadow of Christ's covenant-inaugurating blood (Heb 9:18-20).

quote-explicit; explicit-nt

The pierced Servant; Peter applies 'by his stripes ye were healed'; Calvin reads Isa 53 christologically

Calvin, Comm. Isaiah (Pringle, CTS, PD)

KEYSTONE: purification triad (scarlet, kokkinos) -> Hebrews binds blood + water + scarlet wool + hyssop into one rite. The canon's own knot.

Heb 9:19-22

The barrier veil becomes the torn flesh: 'through the veil, that is, his flesh.' The temple-veil scene.

Heb 10:19-20; Exod 26:31

The golden lampstand, sole light of the holy place, prefigures Christ the light of the world.

Exod 25:31-40; John 8:12; Jukes 1854

New Jerusalem is a cube (Rev 21:16) = the Holy of Holies (1 Kgs 6:20 cube) expanded to a city; no separate temple needed.

Rev 21:16,22; Beale 2004

The bread of the Presence continually before the LORD prefigures Christ the bread of life.

Exod 25:30; John 6:35; Habershon 1898

Physical circumcision (Abrahamic sign) prefigures the heart-circumcision 'of Christ' in baptism - the sign fulfilled inwardly.

text (Col 2:11-12); explicit-nt

The high priest's yearly entry with blood -> Christ once with his own blood into the greater tabernacle.

Heb 9:7-12

The daily lamb (morning and evening) prefigures 'the Lamb of God' offered once for all.

Exod 29:38-42; John 1:29; Habershon 1898

The ark bearing the law and the mercy seat prefigures Christ in whom law and mercy meet.

Exod 25:10-22; Heb 9:4; Habershon 1898

Aaron's rod that budded (dead wood bearing life), kept in the ark, prefigures the resurrection vindicating Christ's priesthood.

Num 17:8; Heb 9:4; Habershon 1898

God 'walking' (hithpael halak) in the garden = the reflexive-presence form of God walking among his people in the tabernacle covenant. Row 7 hook.

Wenham 1986 (cite-only)

Creation-light over the primeval deep foreshadows the new-creation light of the gospel in the heart (explicit-nt).

2 Cor 4:6; Gen 1:2-3

The tree of life closed in Eden (Gen 3:22-24) reopened in the City; xylon zoes in both LXX Gen 2:9 and Rev 22:2. THE TREES-THREAD CROSSING POINT - cross-link to /featured/trees. Mirror Row 3.

PD-LXX (Swete); H6086; G3586

The first covering required the first death; on Moriah Abraham speaks the thread's next line: 'God will provide himself a lamb.'

Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (public domain)

'God will provide himself a lamb' is answered at the Jordan: 'Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.'

Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (public domain)

Paul quotes the one-flesh word over Adam and Eve and names it 'a great mystery... concerning Christ and the church.'

Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (public domain)

'The LORD shut him in' — the one door of the ark, sealed by God's own hand, set beside 'I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved.'

Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (public domain)

Peter reads the ark's waters as 'the like figure' of baptism — eight souls saved through water.

Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (public domain)

Melchizedek — king of Salem, priest of the most high God, bringing forth bread and wine — is Hebrews' pattern for the priesthood of Christ, 'after the order of Melchisedec.'

Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (public domain)

Jesus takes Jacob's ladder to himself: 'ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.'

Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (public domain)

Joseph sold for silver by his brothers; the greater Son sold for thirty pieces — the rejected brother who becomes the world's bread-giver is Genesis's longest Christ-pattern.

Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (public domain)

The altar of incense before the veil prefigures Christ's ceaseless intercession (cf. Rev 8:3-4).

Exod 30:1-8; Heb 7:25; Habershon 1898

The Sinai/Mosaic vocation 'a kingdom of priests, an holy nation' (Exod 19:6) is applied directly to the church - a royal priesthood.

text; explicit-nt

Scapegoat bearing 'all their iniquities... unto a solitary land' -> 'the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all'; bearing-sin motif (nasa/sabal); Azazel contested note attached

thematic/lexical; Epistle of Barnabas 7 (PD)

Unbroken Passover lamb -> 'not a bone shall be broken' at the cross. Cross-links lintel and cross scenes.

John 19:36; Exod 12:46

Cherubim (H3742) guard Eden's east and guard the mercy seat / veil; sanctuary faces east.

Wenham 1986; Beale 2004

'As Moses lifted up the serpent... so must the Son of Man be lifted up.' Looking healed the body; believing gives eternal life.

John 3:14-15 (NT states the type); lens 21-typology

Paul reads the whole murmuring cycle as typoi/warning for the church ('neither murmur ye'); frames why the wilderness episode matters typologically.

ASV; lens 19

Coats of skin -> the imputed robe of righteousness. CONTESTED: the skins' provenance is inferred.

Gen 3:21; Isa 61:10; Edwards, Images of Divine Things

The bow set after the flood (Noahic sign) reappears as the rainbow encircling the throne (Rev 4:3) - the mercy-sign at the throne of grace. Figural/traditional; label as tradition.

Edwards, Images of Divine Things (PD). contested: figural association

Blood applied to the doorposts -> the faith-act that averts the destroyer.

Exod 12:22-23; Heb 11:28

The blood-sprinkled mercy seat prefigures Christ the hilasterion (propitiation).

Rom 3:25; Heb 9:5; Exod 25:17

The high priest's garments of glory and beauty prefigure our great high priest.

Exod 28:2; Heb 4:14; Fairbairn 1845

Solomon as God's 'son' foreshadows the true Son (explicit-nt)

2 Sam 7:14; Heb 1:5

The tree of life stylized as the seven-branched golden lampstand, a tree of light in the Holy Place.

Beale 2004

Aaron's called high-priesthood foreshadows Christ's appointed priesthood.

Heb 5:4-5

The breastplate bearing Israel's names over the heart prefigures Christ bearing his own before the Father.

Exod 28:29; John 17:9; Habershon 1898

Rahab's scarlet cord read as the sheltering blood of Christ. CONTESTED (Marsh's rule): classic overextended type, no NT warrant. Present WITH the critique that it is allegory, not typology.

Josh 2:18-21; Heb 9:22; 1 Clement 12 (PD); Origen

Eden's gold and onyx saturate the tabernacle and the high priest's ephod; sacred materials mark sacred space.

Wenham 1986

protoevangelium head-bruising echoed in Rom 16:20 (event, traditional; witness Fairbairn 1845)

Fairbairn 1845 (NT echo)

Peter reads the Davidic seed-promise fulfilled in the resurrected Christ enthroned (explicit-nt)

Acts 2:29-36

Riverside trees whose fruit is monthly and whose 'leaf shall be for healing' are the direct OT source of Rev 22:2's xylon zoes bearing twelve fruits and leaves 'for the healing of the nations'. The mid-canon hinge the tree spine currently lacks.

PD-LXX; H6086/G3586; Beale-Carson (cite-only)

The tabernacle is 'a copy and shadow (hypodeigma kai skia) of the heavenly'; the earthly tent is a copy of the true tent.

Heb 8:5

The holy places made with hands are antitypa of the true heaven.

Heb 9:24

Passover lamb 'without blemish' -> Christ's 'precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish.'

TSK; 1 Pet 1:19

One door, pitch-sealed, carrying the remnant through the flood; 1 Pet 3:20-21 warrants the ark-baptism link (NT-warranted, not extended).

Gen 6:14-16; 1 Pet 3:20; Habershon (1898, PD)

The bronze altar of burnt offering prefigures the cross where the sacrifice is consumed ('we have an altar').

Exod 27:1-8; Heb 13:10; Jukes 1854

The bronze laver for priestly washing prefigures the washing of regeneration (cf. Eph 5:26).

Exod 30:18-21; Titus 3:5; Habershon 1898