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Recycle

You will get used to reading the scriptures looking for double meaning. For instance:

^{Ps 119:89} LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.

This verse tells us that a shadow is settled. It is not a variable thing that is whimsical invention. So we expect to be able to reuse a shadow to solve other riddles.

One distinguishing characteristic of the shadows and riddles is that an answer from one verse can be reused in other verses, unlike traditional typology where something may have different meanings in different verses.

For example, Gen 3 showed us that garments were works.

When Jesus tells his disciple to take two shoes but only one cloak (garment), he expects that they will walk in the flesh and in the spirit, but will only do one (spiritual) work.

When Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey, he is sitting on the garments of the disciples, meaning that he is finished with their works. He will shortly die, and they will begin a new work as apostles.

When the people greeting Jesus throw their own garments in the dirt, they are saying that their works are earthly.

When we are told to put on the garment of Christ, we are to put on the works of Christ, which is his finished work of the cross. We are made righteous through the apron of skins provided by God.

This re-usability of a shadow is unique and sets this apart from common allegory.

I am collecting a Dictionary of shadows so that they may be used in other places.

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