to Christ, but under a type_. An undeniable
example is the following: "A bone of him shall not be broken" (John
19:36, from Exod. 12:46; Numb. 9:12); words originally spoken of the
paschal lamb, which was the type of Christ, and now fulfilled in the
great Antitype. Again, we read in Hosea (chap. 11:1): "When Israel was a
child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt;" words which
Matthew quotes as fulfilled in Christ (chap. 2:15). It was the purpose
of God, namely, that the history of Israel, God's first-born son (Exod.
4:22, 23), in his national childhood, should foreshadow that of Jesus,
the only begotten Son of God.

To the same class belongs apparently the following citation: "What is
man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest
him? Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him
with glory and honor, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet." Heb. 2:6-8, from
Psa. 8:4-6. It seems impossible to deny that the immediate reference of
the psalm is to man's exalted dignity and high prerogatives as the lord
of this lower world. But, as the writer to the Hebrews argues, the words
have no complete fulfilment in man considered apart from Christ. It is
in the person of Christ alone that the high destiny of human nature
finds its full realization. He is made Lord of all, and "crowned with
glory and honor" for himself and for all his disciples also, who shall
reign with him in glory for ever. We add one more example from Heb. 1:5,
where the writer quotes and applies to Christ the words of Nathan to
David: "I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son." 2 Sam.
7:14. The promise undeniably had immediate respect to Solomon; not to
Solomon, however, in his simple personality, but to Solomon as the first
after David of a line of kings that should end in Christ, in whom alone
it has its true fulfilment. God took Solomon, and in him the whole line
of kings on David's throne, into the relation of sonship, and thus of
heirship. Rom. 8:17; Gal. 4:7. To Solomon, as God's son, the kingdom was
confirmed for ever through Christ; and Solomon's lower sonship,
moreover, adumbrated the higher sonship of the last and greatest of his
sons, to whom the promise was: "He shall be great, and shall be called
the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne
of his father David: and he shall reign over the