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Distinction between Typology and Allegory
==Distinction between Typology and Allegory==
Typology stresses the connection between actual persons, events, places and institutions of the Old Testament, and their corresponding reality in the New Testament which they foreshadowed.<ref>Fr. John Breck, ''Scripture in Tradition: The Bible and it Interpretation in the Orthodox Church'' (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir Seminary Press, 2001)p.22f.</ref> Moses the Lawgiver foreshadows Christ, the ultimate Lawgiver. Aaron, the High priest, foreshadows Christ, the ultimate High Priest. Manna, which fed the people in the wilderness foreshadows the Christ the Heavenly Bread (the Eucharist), which provides ultimate spiritual nourishment. Allegory, on the other hand, finds hidden or symbolic meaning in the Old Testament, and sees multiple correspondences in a given narrative with something else. For example, St. Paul explicitly uses allegory in Galatians 4, in which he sees the child of the slave woman (Hagar) as representing those under the Law, while the child of the free woman (Sarah) as representing those under the New Covenant, and the casting out of Hagar and Ishmael as representing the inferiority of the Old Covenant to the New (Galatians 4:21-31).
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