Old Testament

Dictionary of Biblical Words:

—The history of the first man and God’s dealings with him generally, and particularly in the actions of the Jews, who were taken as a sample of the whole, and after all God’s training and care (Isa. 5) crucified His Son. Man is here tried in innocence, in sin apart from law, under law, under law and grace, and everywhere fails. The Old Testament contains also the lives of the saints of old, and is fan of illustrations of Christian truths, being in this aspect a series of companion pictures to the New. It contains, too, a large body of prophecies, all relating to the Jews, very many yet unfulfilled, but which will be of intense interest, when the time comes, to the people for whom they were written.

Concise Bible Dictionary:

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