![]() ![]() ![]() In John this process is taken much further and no doubt owes a debt to the liturgical life of one or more early Christian communities. ![]() Thus, while Mark has no mention of the sign of Jona (in Mk 8.12 Jesus refuses to give a sign), the Logia source (see synoptic gospels) contained a well-developed form of it, though this has been variously transmitted (Mt 12.38 –41 Lk 11.29 –32) (see jonah, sign of). Not only was Jesus seen as the climax of sacred history, but an ever deepening meditation gradually revealed hidden correspondences between the time of promise and that of fulfillment. It is a basic supposition in all the sources of the Gospel tradition that Jesus fulfills the Old Law, and He Himself affirms this (Mt 5.17). In this sense Adam is "a type of the one to come" (Rom 5.14). But in its strictly Biblical sense it refers either to a moral lesson (the events of the Exodus are lessons, τ ύ π τ ο ι, for the Christian community 1 Cor 10.6) or to some person, event, or institution of the Old Law related in some way to the new and definitive self-revelation of God in Christ. It can refer also to an image or model (a statue is the τ ύ π ο ς of the one represented) and is so used in the Septuagint (Am 5.26, where it refers to statues of false gods see also Acts 7.43). The word "type" is a transcription of the Greek word τ ύ π ο ς (from τ ύ π τ ω, to strike), which means, first of all, a blow, and then the mark left by a blow or the application of pressure, e.g., the mark of the nails in Christ's hands (Jn 20.25). ![]()
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