It is important to stress that this is not simply ‘typology’. Typology takes an event from the past and sets it in close relation to a parallel event in the present time. Luke’s Davidic theme is indeed typological—Jesus really is seen as the ‘true David’—but this is neither random nor arbitrary: it is held firmly within a historical scheme. Jesus’ life, death and resurrection, and the sending of the divine spirit, are the end-product of the long story that began with David and the divine promises made to him. The similarities, the parallels, are there because of the overall story, not vice
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