3.  The impossibility of any attempt to dissever the revelations of the Old Testament from those of the New appears most clearly when we consider the explicit declarations of our Saviour, and after him the apostles, on this point.  If we know any thing whatever concerning the doctrines of our Lord Jesus, we know that he constantly taught his disciples that he had come in accordance with the prophecies of the Old Testament.  If there were found in his discourses only one or two remote allusions to these prophecies, there would be more show of reason in the favorite hypothesis of rationalists, that the disciples misapprehended their Lord’s meaning.  But his teachings are so numerous and explicit on this point that, even aside from the inspiration of the writers, such an explanation is not to be thought of for a moment.  It was with two of them a matter of personal knowledge that “beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself,” Luke 24:27; and with all of them that he said, after his resurrection, in reference to his past teachings:  “These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms concerning me.”  Luke 24:44.  That in Christ were fulfilled the prophecies of the Old Testament, appears in every variety of form in the gospel narratives.  It constituted, so to speak, the warp into which the Saviour wove his web of daily instruction.  Now if a single thread, unlike all the rest in substance and color, had found its way into this warp, we might, perhaps, regard it as foreign and accidental; but to dissever from our Lord’s words all his references to the prophecies concerning himself in the Old Testament, would be to take out of the web all the threads of the warp, and then the web itself would be gone.  No unbiased reader ever did, or ever could gain from the words of Christ and his apostles any other idea than that Jesus of Nazareth came in accordance with a bright train of supernatural revelations going before and preparing the way for his advent.  This idea is so incorporated into the very substance of the New Testament that it must stand or fall with it.

4.  Having contemplated the indivisible nature of revelation from the position of the New Testament, we are now prepared to go back and look at it from the platform of the Old Testament.  We shall find this thickly sown with those great principles which underlie the plan of redemption, and bind it together as one glorious whole.