The Old Testament sacrifices functioned as God’s revelation to his people, but they also functioned as shadows or types. This article discusses how shadows functioned to lead people to Christ.

Did Old Testament saints comprehend the types and shadows as pointing to better things to come? This article evaluates the view of one scholar who argued that such saints did not, and shows it to be lacking. The author explains that the symbol and type needed the Word, which was there to explain their function, that they were but images of the reality to come.