The Typology of Scripture Viewed in Connexion with the Entire Scheme of the Divine Dispensations

The Typology of Scripture Viewed in Connexion with the Entire Scheme of the Divine Dispensations
Vol. 1
By Patrick Fairbairn

The two Volumes here offered to the public, are in substance a republication of those, bearing the same general title, which apparently, the one in 1845, the other in 1847; yet not without considerable differences. The principles brought out on the subject of Typology are, with a few slight modifications, the same in this as in the former edition, and the same view is consequently exhibited of the nature of the connection between the Old and the New Testament dispensations. The portion of the work, however, in which the principles of the subject are formally investigated, has been entirely rewritten, and, by means both of omissions and additions, of alterations in thought and style, has been rendered more distinct in statement, and, it is hoped also, more clear and conclusive in argument. The remaining position of the first volume, which treats in detail of primeval and patriarchal times, has been yet more materially changed, and by much the larger proportion of this part of the volume, as it now stands, differs from the corresponding volume of the former edition various fresh topics are here for the first time introduced and are the discussion of others a more natural and appropriate method has been adopted. By adhering more closely to the guidance of Scripture, and keeping more carefully in view the progression in the Divine plan, a better, and to my own mind at least, a more satisfactory view has been presented of both the religion and the history of the periods before the Law. Several things, which might otherwise appear to be defects in the older records of Scripture, and which have often been felt to be somewhat anomalous, are thus seen to be entirely in place, and to have naturally arisen from the method of the Divine procedure.

The second volume differs both less frequently and materially from the corresponding volume of the first edition occasional alterations, however, have been introduced throughout the volume; and several new sections have been added toward the close. A good deal of supplemental y matter, closely connected with the main theme, has been thrown into the form of appendices, a portion of which have already appeared elsewhere, and a portion also belonged to the first edition But the later part of an appendix, in the first volume of this edition, on the restoration of the Jews, that, namely, which treated the prophecies supposed to refer to the subject, has been omitted here

The chief reason for this omission is, not any change of opinion regarding the interpretation of those prophecies, but a conviction that the subject enters too largely into Old Testament...

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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.