Abram Herbert Lewis - Spiritual Sabbathism
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94 SPIRITUAL SABBATHISM<br />
illumines the entire Book. The whole history, the<br />
whole movement of the Book is a solution. This<br />
is what we mean by saying that creation and redemption<br />
are inseparable, and that creation centers<br />
in Christ. The thought is not new. It has indeed<br />
been impaired by the excesses of overzealous advocates.<br />
T^-pologists have allegorized about it.<br />
They have given the plainest facts occult meaning.<br />
Everything is a t}'pe of something, and nothing is<br />
literally true—to a certain t^-pe of thinker. Christ<br />
has been made central by astronomical calculations<br />
and decentralized by Gnostic speculation. There<br />
has always been this conflict between t^'pology and<br />
the historical interpretation of the Bible. But we<br />
can not deny the instinct to seek God in history,<br />
for he is our supreme need. That instinct is like<br />
the self-orientation of the carrier-dove, who seeks<br />
her home.<br />
"Thou hast made us for thyself," cries<br />
Augustine, "and our souls are restless till they rest<br />
in<br />
thee."<br />
That there is a profound spiritual continuity between<br />
the older and the later concepts of God in the<br />
Bible is clear enough when we glance at the meaning<br />
of certain words. The word Jeshua, for example,<br />
means. Jehovah is salvation; and Jesus is<br />
the same word as Jeshua. When, therefore, in<br />
Isaiah, Jehovah says, "I am thy saviour and thy re-
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