The Typology of Scripture, Volume 1 by Patrick Fairbairn

Author:Patrick Fairbairn [Fairbairn, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2017-11-22T23:00:00+00:00

There is nothing surely unnatural or far-fetched in such a line of reflection. It manifestly lay within the reach of the very earliest members of a believing seed; especially, since the light it is supposed to have conveyed, did not stand alone, but was only supplementary to that embodied in the first grand promise to the fallen, that the seed of the woman should bruise the head of the serpent. The supernatural machinery at the east of the garden merely shewed how this bruising was to proceed, and in what result it might be expected to issue. It was to proceed, not by placing in abeyance the manifestation of divine righteousness, but by providing for its being exercised without the fallen creature being destroyed. Nor should it issue in a partial, but in a complete recovery--nay, in the possession of a state higher than before. For, the creaturehood of earth, it would seem, was yet to stand in a closer relation to the manifested glory of God, and was to become capable of enduring sights and performing ministrations, which were riot known in the original constitution of things on earth.

It might not be possible, perhaps, for the primeval race of worshippers to go farther, or to get a more definite insight into the purposes of God, by contemplating the cherubim. We scarcely think it could. But we can easily conceive, how the light and hope therewith connected would be felt to grow, when this embodied creaturehood--or, if we rather choose so to regard it, this ideal manhood--was placed in the sanctuary of God's presence and glory, and so as to form the immediate boundary and covering of his throne. A relation of greater nearness to the divine was there evidently won for the human and earthly, And not that only, but a step also in advance toward the actual enjoyment of what was ideally exhibited. For, while at first men in flesh and blood were not permitted to enter "into the region of holy life occupied by the cherabirn, but only to look at it from without, now the way was at length partially laid open, and in the person of the high-priest, through the blood of atonement, they could make an approach, though still only at stated times, to the very feet of the cherubim of glory, The blessed and hopeful relation of believing men to these singular attendants of the divine majesty, rose thus more distinctly into view, and in more obvious connection also with the means, through which the ultimate realization was to be attained. But the information in this line, and by means of these materials, reaches its farthest limit, when, in the Apocalyptic vision of a triumphant church, the four and twenty elders, who represent her, are seen sitting in royal state and crowned majesty close beside the throne, with the cherubic forms in and around it. There, at last, the ideal and the actual freely meet together--the merely symbolical representatives of the life of God, and its real possessors, the members of a redeemed and glorified church.

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