Thursday, May 8, 2008

1Cor 10, 11b The end of the ages has come

(1Cor 10, 11b) The end of the ages has come
[11b] Upon whom the end of the ages has come.
(CCC 130) Typology indicates the dynamic movement toward the fulfilment of the divine plan when "God [will] be everything to everyone" (1 Cor 15:28). Nor do the calling of the patriarchs and the exodus from Egypt, for example, lose their own value in God's plan, from the mere fact that they were intermediate stages. (CCC 129) Christians therefore read the Old Testament in the light of Christ crucified and risen. Such typological reading discloses the inexhaustible content of the Old Testament; but it must not make us forget that the Old Testament retains its own intrinsic value as Revelation reaffirmed by our Lord himself (Cf. Mk 12:29-31). Besides, the New Testament has to be read in the light of the Old. Early Christian catechesis made constant use of the Old Testament (Cf. 1 Cor 5:6-8; 10:1-11). As an old saying put it, the New Testament lies hidden in the Old and the Old Testament is unveiled in the New (Cf. St. Augustine, Quaest. in Hept. 2, 73: PL 34, 623; cf. DV 16).

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