not the ultimate end. It
has been symbolised by the law, and itself symbolises glory. But it is the
type of it, and the origin or cause.
The ordinary life of men is like that of the saints. They all seek their
satisfaction and differ only in the object in which they place it; they call
those their enemies who hinder them, etc. God has then shown the power which
He has of giving invisible blessings, by that which He has shown Himself to
have over things visible.
644. Types.--God, wishing to form for Himself an holy people, whom He should
separate from all other nations, whom He should deliver from their enemies
and should put into a place of rest, has promised to do so and has foretold
by His prophets the time and the manner of His coming. And yet, to confirm
the hope of His elect, He has made them see in it an image through all time,
without leaving them devoid of assurances of His power and of His will to
save them. For, at the creation of man, Adam was the witness, and guardian
of the promise of a Saviour, who should be born of woman, when men were
still so near the creation that they could not hav