“Everything that happens in the Old Testament is a "type" or adumbration of something that happens in the New Testament, and the whole subject is therefore called typology, though it is a typology in a special sense.”

Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Four, p. 79

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Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912–1991

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