Jesus uses the bronze serpent as a type of his Crucifixion (Jn 3:14 cf.Paul explains that circumcision foreshadowed Christian baptism (Col 2:11-12).Peter uses Noah’s ark as a type of Christian baptism (1 Pt 3:18-22).Here are a few more examples of biblical typology: Early Christians understood that the Old Testament was full of types or pictures that were fulfilled or realized in the New Testament. Paul says that Adam was a type of the one who was to come-Christ (Rom 5:14). Augustine said that “the Old Testament is the New concealed, but the New Testament is the Old revealed” ( Catechizing of the Uninstructed 4:8). Types are like pictures that come alive in a new and exciting way when seen through the eyes of Christ’s revelation. It is like a taste or a hint of something that will be fulfilled or realized. A type is a person, thing, or event in the Old Testament that foreshadows something in the New Testament. We all know that the Old Testament is full of stories, people, and historical events. One of the things he would have understood is typology. Why do Catholics call Mary the Ark of the New Covenant? Answering that question will take us on a thrilling journey through the Old and New Testaments.įor example, Luke wove some marvelous things into his Gospel that only a knowledgeable Jew would have understood-a Jew who knew Jewish Scripture and had eyes to see and ears to hear.
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