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No, but what is either real or typical. But the first passages,
excluding as they do reality, indicate that all this is only typical.

All these passages together cannot be applied to reality; all can be said to
be typical; therefore they are not spoken of reality, but of the type.

Agnus occisus est ab origine mundi.135 A sacrificing judge.

686. Contradictions.--The sceptre till the Messiah--without king or prince.

The eternal law--changed.

The eternal covenant--a new covenant.

Good laws--bad precepts. Ezekiel.

687. Types.--When the word of God, which is really true, is false literally,
it is true spiritually. Sede a dextris meis:136 this is false literally,
therefore it is true spiritually.

In these expressions, God is spoken of after the manner of men; and this
means nothing else but that the intention which men have in giving a seat at
their right hand, God will have also. It is then an indication of the
intention of God, not of His manner of carrying it out.

Thus when it is said, "God has received the odour of your incense, and will
in recompense give you a rich land," that is equivalent to saying that the
same intention which a man would have, who, pleased with your perfumes,
should in recompense give you a rich land, God will