It is important to notice what Cheyne is not saying: i) It is not an issue of Old Testament prediction and New Testament fulfillment, 2) nor is there any Heilsgeschichte moving from the Old Testament to the New, 3) nor is the New Testament the culmination of our Old Testament ideal. Rather, there is a certain kind of correspondence between the Old Testament and the New especially visible in the Psalms and Isaiah, which correspondence can be maintained only on the basis of a strictly grammatical, philological reading. It emerges quite clearly at this point that Cheyne is attempting to harmonize
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