I think Jesus was the first to introduce examining the scriptures with "types and anti-types" when he stated that Elijah's returned was John the Baptist (Matthew 11:14). Being that Jesus IS the 'firstborn from the Dead' (Rev 1:5), this was not a resurrection of Elijah, but a type to be examined thru the bible's history.
CTR taught consistently in the WT and publications up to 1916 the examination of types and anti-types. Does anybody know any other modern day teacher/preacher before his time that taught in such a manner?
Sherwo
Who after Jesus taught in such a fashion?
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dh
maybe C T Russel was in fact Jesus in disguise.
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BluesBrother
We have this enormous old Family Bible, it weighs the proverbial ton, and is packed with notations by the scholar who prepared it. This was Rev John Brown , b.1722 - 1787 .
That is full of type and antitype comments. Noahs ark pictured Jesus as saving the world, jacobs ladder, Moses burning bush, they are all pictures of something.
I do not think that such thinking was uncommon in the days of C T Russell, and before