To know if the law and the sacrifices are a reality or a type, we must… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

To know if the law and the sacrifices are a reality or a type, we must see if the prophets, in speaking of these things, confined their view and their thought to them, so that they saw only the old covenant; or if they saw therein something else of which they were the representation, for in a portrait we see the thing figured. For this we need only examine what they say of them.

Place: SECTION X · ¶2065
License: Public domain · Source
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