the Cross. It was necessary that Christ should suffer in order to enter into
glory, "that He should destroy death through death." Two advents.

680. Types.--When once this secret is disclosed, it is impossible not to see
it. Let us read the Old Testament in this light, and let us see if the
sacrifices were real; if the fatherhood of Abraham was the true cause of the
friendship of God; and if the promised land was the true place of rest. No.
They are therefore types. Let us in the same way examine all those ordained
ceremonies, all those commandments which are not of charity, and we shall
see that they are types.

All these sacrifices and ceremonies were then either types or nonsense. Now
these are things too clear and too lofty to be thought nonsense.

To know if the prophets confined their view in the Old Testament, or saw
therein other things.

681. Typical.--The key of the cipher. Veri adoratores.[128] Ecce agnus Dei
qui tollit peccata mundi.[129]

682. Is. 1:21. Change of good into evil, and the vengeance of God. Is. 10:1;
26:20; 28:1. Miracles: Is. 33:9; 40:17; 41:26; 43:13.

Jer. 11:21; 15:12; 17:9. Pravum est cor omnium et incrustabile; quis
cognoscet illud?130 that is to say, Who can know all its evil? For it is
already known to be wicked. Ego dominus,131 etc.--vii. 14, Faciam domui
huic,132 etc. Trust in external sacrifices--7:22, Quia non sum locutus,133
etc. Outward sacrifice is not the essential point--11:13, Secundum
numerum,134 etc. A multitude of doctrines.

Is. 44:20-24; 54:8; 63:12-17; 66:17. Jer. 2:35; 4:22-24; 5:4, 29-31; 6:16;
22:15-17.

683. Types.--The letter kills. All happened in types. Here is the cipher
which Saint Paul gives us. Christ must suffer. An humiliated God.
Circumcision of the heart, true fasting, true sacrifice, a true temple. The
prophets have shown that all these must be spiritual.

Not the meat which perish