prayers and fastings
in contrast to a poor sinner like me, yet he has not called me a
brothelkeeper and archknave, as he has Christ.

[Sidenote: III. The Argument from Scripture]

Now comes the third argument, in which the high majesty of God is
made a target, and the Holy Spirit becomes a liar and a heretic,
so that by all means the contention of the Romanists may be
upheld.

The third argument is taken from the Scriptures, just as the
second was taken from reason and the first from folly, so that
everything may be done in proper order. It runs as follows: The
Old Testament was a type of the New Testament, and because it had
a bodily high-priest, the New Testament must have one
likewise--how else shall the type be fulfilled? For has not
Christ Himself said: "Not one jot or tittle of the law shall pass
away; it shall all be fulfilled"? [Matt. 5:18]

A book more foolish, senseless, and blind I have never seen. Once
before, another[48] wrote the same thing against me, so coarse
and foolish that I could not but scorn it. But because they have
not sharpened their wits, I must speak bluntly for the
thickheads; I see that the ass does not appreciate a harp, I must
offer him thistles.

[Sidenote: Type and Fulfillment]

In the first place, it is evident that a type is material and
external, and the fulfilment of the type is spiritual and
internal; what the type reveals to the bodily eye, its fulfilment
must reveal to the eye of faith alone, or it is not really a
fulfilment.

I must prove that by illustration. By many miracles the Jewish
people came in a bodily manner out of the bodily land of Egypt,
as is written in the book of Exodus [Ex. 13:18 ff.]. This type
does not mean that we, too, shall in a bodily manner come out of
Egypt, but that our souls by a right faith shall come forth from
sins and the spiritual power of the devil; so that the bodily
assembly of the Jewish people signifies the spiritual and
internal assembly of the Christian people in faith. Thus, as
they drank water from a bodily rock, and ate bodily manna with
the bodily mouth, so with the mouth of the heart we drink and eat
of the spiritual Rock, the Lord Christ, when we believe in Him [1
Cor. 10:3]. Again, Moses set a serpent on a pole, and whosoever
looked upon it was made whole [Num. 21:8]. That signifies Christ
on the Cross; whosoever believeth in Him, is saved. And so
throughout the entire Old Testament, all the bodily, visible
things in it