Harden their heart. How? By flattering their lust, and making them hope to accomplish it.
Fac secundum exemplar quod tibi ostensum est in monte.
The Jewish religion then was formed on its likeness to the truth of the Messiah, and the truth of the Messiah was recognised by the religion of the Jews which was the figure of it.
Among the Jews the truth was only prefigured. In heaven it is revealed.
In the Church it is hidden, yet recognised by its correspondence with the type.
The type was made according to the truth, and the truth is recognised according to the type.
Saint Paul says himself that people would forbid to marry, and he himself speaks to the Corinthians, in a way which is a trap. For if a prophet had said the one, and Saint Paul had afterwards said the other, he would have been accused.
Typical.—Make all things like unto the pattern which was showed thee in the mount. On which Saint Paul says that the Jews shadowed forth heavenly things.
Typical. The key of the cipher. Veri adoratores. Ecce agnus Dei qui tollit peccata mundi.
That the law was typical. Types.—The letter kills. All happened in a figure. This is the cipher which Saint Paul gives us. Christ must suffer. An humiliated God. Circumcision of the heart, a true fast, a true sacrifice, a true temple. The prophets indicated that all these must be spiritual.