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• Because pastors today must preach the gospel in ways intelligible (as far as lies in us) to unbelievers with a view toward their conversion, the apostolic sermons summarized in Acts have much wisdom to offer.
• precedents for the weekly sermons preached to Christian congregations, we must look elsewhere than the book of Acts.
• foundations already laid for apostolic, Christ-centered hermeneutics in the interpretation of earlier events and passages by later Old Testament texts.
• last category brings together Old Testament passages and events for which no particular New Testament text can be cited as providing even implicit typological interpretation. The interpretation of Old Testament texts in this final category, according to more general and more deeply embedded patterns of covenantal and redemptive correspondence, will...
• There is continuity between type and antitype because Old Testament redemptive events, persons, and institutions truly reveal some aspect of God’s new-creation reversal of sin and its woeful consequences, a process of reversal and renewal that reaches its climax only in Christ and his work.