9. God the Father sending the Child, The Hours of Catherine
of CIeves, New York, Guennol Collection (after Plummer)
The Biblical typology was based on the established correspondence between the intervention
of God in the Old and the New Dispensation as well as the connection between events of each
of these histories.29 It was the Nativity and the Sacrifice of Isaac that belonged to the most
priyileged places embodied with theological meaning which had to help to understand the sense
of the mysteries of Christ.30 The theme of Abraham offering Isaac, his only begotten son, underlies
29. J. Danielem, Sacramenlum futuri, Paris 1950 in the following way defines the typology: Elłe consisle a monlrer dans les
ćvenements passus la figurę ćvcnemenls a venir.
30. J. Danielou, "La Typologie d'lsaac dans le christianisme primitif", Biblica, XXVIII, 1947, p. 363 —393.
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of CIeves, New York, Guennol Collection (after Plummer)
The Biblical typology was based on the established correspondence between the intervention
of God in the Old and the New Dispensation as well as the connection between events of each
of these histories.29 It was the Nativity and the Sacrifice of Isaac that belonged to the most
priyileged places embodied with theological meaning which had to help to understand the sense
of the mysteries of Christ.30 The theme of Abraham offering Isaac, his only begotten son, underlies
29. J. Danielem, Sacramenlum futuri, Paris 1950 in the following way defines the typology: Elłe consisle a monlrer dans les
ćvenements passus la figurę ćvcnemenls a venir.
30. J. Danielou, "La Typologie d'lsaac dans le christianisme primitif", Biblica, XXVIII, 1947, p. 363 —393.
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