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George Ophoff was Professor of Old Testament Studies in the Protestant Reformed Seminary in its early days. Reprinted here, in edited form, are articles that Ophoff wrote at that time for the Standard Bearer. Previous article in this series: February 15, 2005, p. 228. Let us now attend to the knowledge of which the tree of life was a sign. Adam, let me repeat, was commanded to eat of the fruit of the tree of life. “And the Lord God commanded the man saying, of every tree of the garden, eating thou shalt eat?” (Gen. 2:16). It is plain that...

George Ophoff was Professor of Old Testament Studies in the Protestant Reformed Seminary in its early days. Reprinted here, in edited form, are articles that Ophoff wrote at that time for the Standard Bearer. Previous article in this series: February 1, 2005, p. 201. From the very outset, man’s faith in and his love for God were put to a test. For in the garden there was that other tree—the tree of knowledge of good and evil. From the sacred record (Gen. 2 andGen. 3), one may gather the following data relative to this tree: 1) The tree was called the...

George Ophoff was Professor of Old Testament Studies in the Protestant Reformed Seminary in its early days. Reprinted here, in edited form, are articles that Ophoff wrote at that time for the Standard Bearer. Previous article in this series: January 15, 2005, p. 184. One of the institutions of Paradise, so it was pointed out, was the tree of life. This tree was good for food, and it nourished man’s frame at its fountainhead. It was capable of maintaining in man the powers of an endless life. However, man soon forfeited his privilege of eating of the fruit of this...

George Ophoff was Professor of Old Testament Studies in the Protestant Reformed Seminary in its early days. Reprinted here, in edited form, are articles which Ophoff wrote at that time for the Standard Bearer. Facts of history We now enter upon the practical branch of our subject. It is the old dispensation, inaugurated by the fall of man, that furnishes us with the materials to be considered. This period, however, was preceded by an epoch sometimes referred to as the golden age in the history of the human race. The first few chapters of the book of Genesis record the...

George Ophoff was Professor of Old Testament Studies in the Protestant Reformed Seminary in its early days. Reprinted here, in edited form, are articles which Ophoff wrote at that time for the Standard Bearer. Previous article in this series: December 15, 2004, p. 128. We are engaged in examining typical events and transactions in sacred history for the purpose of ascertaining the principles of interpretation that these typical materials exhibit. There remain two rules, to which we now desire to call attention. Fourth principle of interpretation The first of these may be stated thus: The meaning of the type should...

George Ophoff was Professor of Old Testament Studies in the Protestant Reformed Seminary in its early days. Reprinted here, in edited form, are articles that Ophoff wrote at that time for the Standard Bearer. Previous article in this series: December 1, 2004, p. 106. Second principle of interpretation   Let us now consider another important principle of interpretation. Reflecting again on the examples of typical materials that we considered last time, we discover that not one of the events, transactions, or persons used by the inspired writers as figures of the good things under the gospel is of a sinful...

George Ophoff was Professor of Old Testament Studies in the Protestant Reformed Seminary in its early days. Reprinted here, in edited form, are articles which Ophoff wrote at that time for the Standard Bearer. Previous article in this series: February 1, 2003, p. 210. In a previous article, attention was called to the fact that the typical-symbolical materials of the old dispensation are not confined within the boundaries of the ceremonial law. The utterances of the prophets and the apostles indicate that events and persons other than those covered by the precepts of the ceremonial law were designed by God...

George Ophoff was Professor of Old Testament Studies in the Protestant Reformed Seminary in its early days. Reprinted here, in edited form, are articles which Ophoff wrote at that time for the Standard Bearer. We ended our previous article by demonstrating that the shadows of the old dispensation were vehicles of much valuable instruction to the believers of the new dispensation. It is plain that, to the inspired writers of the New Testament church, the symbols were images of truths brought into full view with the coming of Christ. Their writings bring to light that they were inclined to set...

George Ophoff was Professor of Old Testament Studies in the Protestant Reformed Seminary in its early days. Reprinted here, in edited form, are articles which Ophoff wrote at that time for the Standard Bearer. The matter which engaged our attention in the foregoing article was whether the believer of the old covenant perceived in the shadows any reference to future realities of the gospel. We confined ourselves to the right of expiatory sacrifice. The question was faced whether the believer of the old covenant regarded the sacrificial victim as an image of the Christ who by His suffering and death...

George Ophoff was Professor of Old Testament Studies in the Protestant Reformed Seminary in its early days. Reprinted here, in edited form, are articles which Ophoff wrote at that time for the Standard Bearer. We have seen that the shadows of the old dispensation were indeed accompanied by Messianic revelations—that is, by the spoken word, describing the very objects and events that were prefigured by the shadows. There are two questions which may now be raised. Was it but an enlightened few who were expecting Him who would demolish the head of the serpent, or was the advent of the...