How Did Jesus Read and Teach the Scriptures? CD

In this beautiful talk Andrew Wood will lead you will to see something of what Jesus would have said to the disciples on the road to Emmaus, making their hearts burn within them. Jesus’ exposé of the Old Testament Scriptures, interpreting all those things concerning himself, is what is known as the allegorical interpretation of Scripture, or Typology. Before his conversion, the great fourth century Church Father, St. Augustine of Hippo, was greatly uninspired when he read the Scriptures. It was not until he came in contact with St. Ambrose of Milan and the eloquence of his preaching, in which Ambrose exposed the allegorical interpretation of Scripture, that Augustine fell deeply in love with Jesus Christ. Augustine finally saw how Jesus Christ is truly the Lord of History – Jesus is ‘hidden’ in the Old Testament; or better still, the Old Testament is made manifest in the New in the Person of Jesus, his words and his actions. Through this approach Augustine saw the magnificence of Scripture and the Lord Jesus whom it proclaims. After hearing this talk you will definitely be inspired to read and pray the Scriptures with greater fervor and a keener insight into how, as Saint Augustine once famously said, “The New Testament is hidden in the Old and the Old is made manifest by the New.”

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