and their Signification—­15.  Typical Transactions connected with the Sacrifices and Oblations:  The Laying of the Offerer’s Hands on the Head of the Victim; the Waving and Heaving of Offerings; the Sprinkling of the Victim’s Blood; the Burning of the Offering—­16.  Typical Meaning of the Tabernacle as a Whole—­The Several Points of Adumbration considered:  Adumbration of God’s Presence with Men; Impossibility of approaching God without a Mediator; Adumbration of Christ’s Expiatory Sacrifice and Heavenly Intercession on the Great Day of Atonement; Burning of the Victim without the Camp—­17.  Distinctions between Clean and Unclean—­Levitical View of Bodily Infirmities

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

INTERPRETATION OF PROPHECY—­1.  General Remarks

I. Prophecies relating to the Near Future—­2.  Their Specific Character—­Examples

II. Prophecies relating to the Last Days—­3.  Meaning of the Term “Last Days,” and its Equivalents—­General Character of this Class of Prophecies—­4.  Prophecies in which the Order of Events is indicated—­Daniel’s Fourth Monarchy; the Great Red Dragon of Revelation, the Two Beasts that succeeded to his Power, and the Woman riding a Scarlet-Colored Beast—­5.  Prophecies which give General Views of the Future—­Examples—­6.  The Prophets give an Inward View of the Vital Forces which sustain and extend God’s Kingdom—­Unity of the Plan of Redemption; its Continual Progress; Indications of the End towards which it is tending; the End Itself the Chief Object of Interest—­Great Crisis in the Church’s History—­Spirit that should actuate the Interpreter of Prophecy

III. Question of Double Sense—­7.  The Term defined—­8.  Examples of Literal and Typical Sense—­Melchizedek’s Priesthood; the Rest of Canaan—­9.  The Messianic Psalms—­Different Principles on which they are interpreted:  Exclusive Application to Christ; Reference to an Ideal Personage; Christ the Head and his Body the Church; Typical View—­10.  The Principle of Progressive Fulfilment

IV. Question of Literal and Figurative Meaning—­11.  General Remarks—­12.  Representative Use in Prophecy of Past Events—­13.  Of the Institutions of the Mosaic Economy—­14.  The Principle of Figurative Interpretation not to be pressed as Exclusive—­15.  Question of the Literal Restoration of the Jews to the Land of Canaan—­16.  Question of our Lord’s Personal Reign on Earth during the Millennium

CHAPTER XXXIX.

QUOTATIONS FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE NEW—­1.  General Remarks on the Authority of the New Testament Writers—­2.  Outward Form of their Quotations—­Its very Free Spirit—­This illustrated by Example—­3.  Contents of the New Testament Quotations—­The So-called Principle of Accommodation; in what Sense True, and in what Sense to be rejected—­4.  Quotations by Way of Argument—­5.  Quotations as Prophecies of Christ and his Kingdom—­Remarks on the Formula:  “That it might be fulfilled”—­6.  Prophecies referring immediately to Christ—­7.  Prophecies referring to Christ under a Type—­Closing Remark