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"Having this plan of OT revelation in view, we are now in a position to discern many of the overtones that exist in the text of the NT... While the gospel will reveal the final significance of all God's promises to Israel, the redemptive revelation in the OT will deepen our appreciation of what it means for Jesus to be the Christ."

"Here we see the principle of corporateness that operates in Scripture. The one represents the many because of the corporate solidarity...Thus the whole human race sinned in Adam...In Abraham the whole nation was chosen. Through the ministrations of one priest all the people are reconciled to God. And so it will develop until the ideas of representation and substitution become fixed in the concept of salvation."

"Redemption as a release from slavery...now becomes one of the most significant themes of the Bible...We shall see also the repetition of the idea of the exodus as the pattern of redemption. There is this first exodus from Egypt, a second involving the return of the captives from Babylon in the sixth century B.C., and then the true exodus in which Jesus takes his people out of the captivity to sin and death."