“So Waltke’s position is that the whole of the Old Testament is to be reread ultimately in light of the New Testament; as a result the original expression of meaning within the Old Testament passage is overridden and redefined by the New Testament.” (Page 220)

“Kaiser’s key point is that in generic prediction only one meaning is expressed and also that the human author is aware of all the stages in the sequence from the first event to the last. The only factor the prophet does not know is the time when those events will occur, especially the time of the final fulfillment. Kaiser does identify features by which one can spot a generic promise.” (Page 211)

“Where does meaning reside in a given utterance? Is it at the level of sense (the definitions of the words within a passage) or at the level of the referents? Is it at the level of the word or at the level of the word in its context?” (Page 309)

“All the approaches have one thing in common: they all recognize that the way to discuss the use of the Old Testament in the New is not on a ‘pure prophetic’ model, in which one takes the Old Testament passage in its context and simply joins it directly to its New Testament fulfillment without any consideration of the historical situation of the Old Testament passage.” (Page 210)

“For this school, typology is prophetic because the pattern of God’s activity is designed by God to be repetitive and the correspondences are identifiable from details in the Old Testament text. In identifying typology as prophetic, this school differs from Kaiser’s view.” (Pages 215–216)

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