LOOKING UNTO JESUS OR CHRIST IN TYPE AND ANTITYPE. BY ...

These texts afford no material for any argumentation. They
call for no course of reasoning from which to draw conclusions.
They make a plain, positive assertion, which, if
their testimony is believed, must be admitted. They declare
that the tabernacle built by Moses, the sanctuary of the
first covenant, was not an original structure; it was made
after a pattern; it was simply a model or figure of something
else, given for the time being to his people; and
that from which it was modeled or fashioned is declared to
be the true sanctuary; and this true sanctuary must be the
sanctuary of the new covenant; for God recognizes in connection
with his work only these two: the true, and the
figure or model which was made from it. The figure was the
tabernacle of Moses. What is the true? p. 112, Para. 2,
[LOOKING].
At this particular point theologians seem to have fallen
into a most marvelous state of bewilderment and confusion.
To this question, What is the true sanctuary from which the
earthly Hebrew sanctuary was modeled? one replies, "It is
the earth." "It is heaven," says another. "It takes both
earth and heaven," answers a third. "It is the land of Palestine,"
exclaims a fourth. A fifth replies, "It is the
church;" a sixth, "the human body;" a seventh, "the human
heart;" an eighth, "the person of our Lord." And on this a
chorus seem to be united, assuming to find in the person of
Christ the antitype of the sanctuary itself, of all its
parts, all its furniture, and all its instruments of service.
And herein is found a lively display of that spirit of
conjecture and fancy, which, according to quotations already
presented, is so much to be deprecated. p. 113,
Para. 1, [LOOKING].
In the midst of these clashing voices, would it not be
well to let an apostle speak, and to listen to his words?
Fortunately the great apostle to the Gentiles (to whom the
work of this dispensation specially pertains) uses language
which cannot be misunderstood. Hear him: "Now of the things
which we have spoken, this is the sum: We have such an high
priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the
Majesty in the heavens; a minister of the sanctuary, and of
the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man."
Heb. 8:1,2. p. 113, Para. 2, [LOOKING].
In the seven preceding chapters of Hebrews, Paul has introduced
the priesthood of Christ. He has compared it with