Not the meat which perishes, but that which perishes not.
You shall be free indeed. Then the former liberty was only a type of liberty.
I am the true bread from heaven.
Particular types.— A double law, double tables of the law, a double temple, a double captivity.
The Synagogue did not perish because it was a type, but because it was no more than a type it fell into servitude. The type subsisted till the reality came, in order that the Church should be always visible, either in the representation which promised it, or in the substance.
In the time of the Messiah the people were divided. Those that were spiritual embraced the Messiah, the carnal remained to serve as witnesses of him.
[OF THE TRUE RELIGION AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS.]
For Port Royal. The Beginning, after having explained the incomprehensibility.—Since the greatness and the vileness of man are so evident, it is necessary that the true religion should declare both that there is in man some great principle of greatness, and a great principle of vileness.