The Typology of Scripture, Vol. 2: Viewed in Connection With the Whole Series of the Divine Dispensations (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Patrick Fairbairn

9780265616734: The Typology of Scripture, Vol. 2: Viewed in Connection With the Whole Series of the Divine Dispensations (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0265616735 ISBN 13: 9780265616734

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Typology of Scripture<br/><br/>The history of what is called the Patriarchal religion may be said to terminate with the descent of the children of Israel into Egypt, or at least with the prosperous circumstances which attended the earlier period of their sojourn there; for the things which afterwards befell them in that land, rather belong to the dispensation of Moses. They tended, in various respects, to prepare the way for this new dispensation, more especially by furnishing the facts in which its fundamental ideas were to be embodied, and on which its institutions were to be based. The true religion, as formerly noticed, has ever distinguished itself....

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Patrick Fairbairn (1805-1874) was born in Berwickshire, Scotland, studied at Edinburgh University, and was an outstanding scholar among Scottish Presbyterians. After 27 years in pastoral service, he served three years as divinity professor at the Free Church College in Aberdeen before becoming principal of the Free Church College, Glasgow, for 18 years until his death. He is the author of Commentary on Ezekiel and The Pastoral Epistles.

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