“The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 69.

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