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Classification of Type
Chapter 7 Special Literary Forms, Virkler's Hermeneutics pg 184
Classification of Type
- 1. Typical Persons – illustrating some great principle or truth of redemption (Adam mentioned as a type of Christ.)
- 2. Typical events – judgment on faithless Israel is a typology warning Christians of judgment.
- 3. Typical institutions – practice that prefigure later salvation events, i.e. passover lamb, burnt offering, scape goat et. al.
- 4. Typical offices – Moses as prophet, Samuel as prophet-priest, David as King
- 5. Typical actions – Isaiah (20) walking naked and barefoot for 3 years, Hosea's marriage to a prostitute symbolizing God's covenantal love to faithless Israel.