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Jim_Baur
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If there is a saint that could list the prefigurements of all seven sacraments, I would be most grateful.
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Nicea325
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Baptism: Baptism is prefigured in the Old Testament through the saving of Noah and his family during the Flood (Genesis 7:12-23). Moses crossing of the Red Sea during the Exodus, leaving captivity for the Promised Land (Exodus 14:1-22).
Confirmation: The recipient receives the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord (Isaiah 11:2-3).
Confession:
GOD uses His priests as His instruments of reconciliation. The New Covenant priesthood is prefigured or ‘typed’ in many places in the Old Testament. Here are several examples from the Old Testament of reconciliation and atonement being performed by a priest:
Leviticus 4:20, “…Thus the priest shall make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven.”
Leviticus 4:26, “Thus the priest shall make atonement for the prince’s sin, and it will be forgiven.”
Leviticus 4:32, “Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.”
Leviticus 4:35, “Thus the priest shall make atonement for the man’s sin, and it will be forgiven.”
Leviticus 5:5-6, “…then whoever is guilty in any of these cases shall confess the sin he has incurred, and as his sin offering for his sin he has committed he shall bring to the Lord a female animal from the flock, a ewe lamb or a she-goat. The priest shall then make atonement for his sin.”
See also Leviticus 5:10,13,16,18, 12:8, 14:18-20,31, 15:15,30, 19:22.
Eucharist:
In Exodus 12:1-22, the Israelites, in order to avoid the slaying of their firstborn by the “Angel of Death”, were commanded by GOD to take an unblemished male lamb (12:5)and slaughter it (12:6), and apply its blood to the two doorposts, and the lintels of every household which did partake of the Lamb (12:7). Now look at verse (12:8), and you will clearly see that in order for their firstborn to be saved, they had to eat the Lamb as well. Is this not what we do in the sacrifice of the Mass? Are we not to be saved by consuming the Body and the blood of the Lamb as shown in John Chapter 6:33-58?
In Exodus 16:13-16, is the story of the quail and the manna which fed the Israelites as they proceeded through their desert trek. GOD provided the bodily food for the hundreds of thousands involved. Can you imagine how much food was required for all of these people every day? There were 600,000 men alone, not counting women and children. See Exodus 12:37.
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ByzCathCantor
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As for the Eucharist, we cannot forget the ordered sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham, which foreshadowed the perfect sacrifice of God’s only-begotten Son.
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ChadS
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Also, in regards to the Eucharist don’t forget about the offerings offered up by Melchisedek. He offered up bread and wine as part of his sacrificial offering.
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TimothyH
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There are several wonderful passages in the Book of Wisdom about the Manna in the desert which should feel very familiar to Catholics.
Instead of this, you nourished your people with food of angels
and furnished them bread from heaven, ready to hand, untoiled-for,
endowed with all delights and conforming to every taste.
For this substance of yours revealed your sweetness toward your children,
and serving the desire of the one who received it,
was changed to whatever flavor each one wished.
Yet snow and ice withstood fire and were not melted,
so that they might know that their enemies’ fruits
Were consumed by a fire that blazed in the hail
and flashed lightning in the rain.
But this fire, again, in order that the righteous might be nourished,
forgot even its proper strength; …
but is relaxed in benefit for those who trust in you.
Therefore at that very time, transformed in all sorts of ways,
it was serving your all-nourishing bounty
according to what they needed and desired;
(Wisdom 16:20-25)
Chapter 18 has this beautiful passage about elements chaning places and substandces with physical properites inconsistent with their appearance, similar to the lines above about fire not being quenched in water. Transubstantiation is all but explicit here.
For the elements, in ever-changing harmony,
like strings of the harp, produce new melody,
while the flow of music steadily persists.
And this can be perceived exactly from a review of what took place.
For land creatures were changed into water creatures,
and those that swam went over on land.
Fire in water maintained its own strength,m
and water forgot its quenching nature;
Flames, by contrast, neither consumed the flesh
of the perishable animals that went about in them,
nor melted the icelike, quick-melting kind of ambrosial food.
(Wisdom 18:18-21)
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Instead of this, you nourished your people with food of angels
and furnished them bread from heaven, ready to hand, untoiled-for,
endowed with all delights and conforming to every taste.
For this substance of yours revealed your sweetness toward your children,
and serving the desire of the one who received it,
was changed to whatever flavor each one wished.
Yet snow and ice withstood fire and were not melted,
so that they might know that their enemies’ fruits
Were consumed by a fire that blazed in the hail
and flashed lightning in the rain.
But this fire, again, in order that the righteous might be nourished,
forgot even its proper strength; …
but is relaxed in benefit for those who trust in you.
Therefore at that very time, transformed in all sorts of ways,
it was serving your all-nourishing bounty
according to what they needed and desired;
(Wisdom 16:20-25)
Chapter 18 has this beautiful passage about elements chaning places and substandces with physical properites inconsistent with their appearance, similar to the lines above about fire not being quenched in water. Transubstantiation is all but explicit here.
For the elements, in ever-changing harmony,
like strings of the harp, produce new melody,
while the flow of music steadily persists.
And this can be perceived exactly from a review of what took place.
For land creatures were changed into water creatures,
and those that swam went over on land.
Fire in water maintained its own strength,m
and water forgot its quenching nature;
Flames, by contrast, neither consumed the flesh
of the perishable animals that went about in them,
nor melted the icelike, quick-melting kind of ambrosial food.
(Wisdom 18:18-21)
-Tim-
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Credo_in_Deum
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Circumcision in the OT is also a prefigurment of Baptism in the NT. Fun fact even infants (including Christ Himself) were circumcised and still are to this day. Makes you wonder why God would have a problem with infants entering into His New Covenant if He let them enter into His Old one?
Infant baptism 1, opposition 0.
Infant baptism 1, opposition 0.
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TimothyH
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Exodus 24 has one of my favorites, one which is often overlooked or missed, but it is soooooo Catholic.
Taking the book of the covenant, he read it aloud to the people, who answered, “All that the LORD has said, we will hear and do.” Then he took the blood and splashed it on the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you according to all these words.” Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abi’hu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness. And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank. (Exodus 24:9-11)
It is so beautiful to read how they saw God, that they beheld him, and that they ate and drank. In the middle of passages about splashing blood on the people, about covenants, and about blessing and curse, this passage stands out to me as very spiritual, and almost oddly out of place.
This was immediately after Israel entered into the covenant with God. Beholding God and eating and drinking was the very first thing which happened after entering the covenant with God.
Catholics should have an intuitive understanding of this passage from what we do at the Mass. We say “Amen” to what the priest says throughout the Liturgy of the Word. We say “Amen” and give our assent to the creed. We profess our faith and renew our covenant with God. We even have the “Book of the Covenant” read aloud to us in the readings. And then we behold God… and we eat, and drink.
This is exactly what happens when we are baptized. We enter into a covenant with God, and then we behold him in the Eucharist, and we eat and drink.
That’s even what the priest says. “Behold the Lamb of God … Happy are those called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.”
I think this the line, “And they beheld God. And they ate and drank.” is one of the most beautiful lines in the whole Bible.
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Taking the book of the covenant, he read it aloud to the people, who answered, “All that the LORD has said, we will hear and do.” Then he took the blood and splashed it on the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you according to all these words.” Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abi’hu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness. And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank. (Exodus 24:9-11)
It is so beautiful to read how they saw God, that they beheld him, and that they ate and drank. In the middle of passages about splashing blood on the people, about covenants, and about blessing and curse, this passage stands out to me as very spiritual, and almost oddly out of place.
This was immediately after Israel entered into the covenant with God. Beholding God and eating and drinking was the very first thing which happened after entering the covenant with God.
Catholics should have an intuitive understanding of this passage from what we do at the Mass. We say “Amen” to what the priest says throughout the Liturgy of the Word. We say “Amen” and give our assent to the creed. We profess our faith and renew our covenant with God. We even have the “Book of the Covenant” read aloud to us in the readings. And then we behold God… and we eat, and drink.
This is exactly what happens when we are baptized. We enter into a covenant with God, and then we behold him in the Eucharist, and we eat and drink.
That’s even what the priest says. “Behold the Lamb of God … Happy are those called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.”
I think this the line, “And they beheld God. And they ate and drank.” is one of the most beautiful lines in the whole Bible.
-Tim-
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Jim_Baur
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Thanks!
Is there any more help with the other sacraments?
Thanks!
Is there any more help with the other sacraments?
Thanks!
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TimothyH
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Holy Matrimony
*God created mankind in his image;
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
(Genesis 1:27)
*That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body. The man and his wife were both naked, yet they felt no shame.
** (Genesis 2:24-25)
Confession and Pennance
…when someone is guilty in regard to any of these matters, that person shall confess the wrong committed, and make reparation to the LORD for the wrong committed: a female animal from the flock, a ewe lamb or a she-goat, as a purification offering. Thus the priest shall make atonement on the individual’s behalf for the wrong. (Leviticus 5:5)
***Thus the priest shall make atonement on the person’s behalf *for the wrong committed, so that the individual may be forgiven. (Leviticus 5:10)
Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” Nathan answered David: “For his part, the LORD has removed your sin. You shall not die, (2 Samuel 12:13)
John wore clothing made of camel’s hair and had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. At that time Jerusalem, all Judea, and the whole region around the Jordan were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the Jordan River as they acknowledged their sins. (Matthew 3:4-6)
Althought this is from the Gospels and not part of the Old Testament per se., it shows the Jewish custom prior to the time of Jesus of confessing sins orally in conjunction with a ritual “Mikvah” or purification bath. The Mikvah is still practiced today and considered a way for a Jew to become purified and holy. You can read about the modern Mikvah at chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/1541/jewish/The-Mikvah.htm This was the immediate precursor to both baptism and confession.
Recieving the Eucharist in a State of Mortal Sin
Likewise, if someone touches anything unclean, whether it be human uncleanness or an unclean animal or an unclean loathsome creature, and then eats the meat of the communion sacrifice belonging to the LORD, that person, too, shall be cut off from the people. (Leviticus 7:21)
The KJV uses the phrase “Sacrifice of peace offering” instead of “Communion offering.”
Holy Orders
***The LORD said to Moses: Take Aaron along with his sons, the vestments, the anointing oil, the bull for a purification offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread, then assemble the whole community at the entrance of the tent of meeting. Moses did as the LORD had commanded. When the community had assembled at the entrance of the tent of meeting, Moses told them: “This is what the LORD has ordered to be done. Bringing forward Aaron and his sons, Moses first washed them with water. Then he put the tunic on Aaron, girded him with the sash, clothed him with the robe,…(*Leviticus 8:1-7)
There are lots more.
-Tim
*God created mankind in his image;
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
(Genesis 1:27)
*That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body. The man and his wife were both naked, yet they felt no shame.
** (Genesis 2:24-25)
Confession and Pennance
…when someone is guilty in regard to any of these matters, that person shall confess the wrong committed, and make reparation to the LORD for the wrong committed: a female animal from the flock, a ewe lamb or a she-goat, as a purification offering. Thus the priest shall make atonement on the individual’s behalf for the wrong. (Leviticus 5:5)
***Thus the priest shall make atonement on the person’s behalf *for the wrong committed, so that the individual may be forgiven. (Leviticus 5:10)
Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” Nathan answered David: “For his part, the LORD has removed your sin. You shall not die, (2 Samuel 12:13)
John wore clothing made of camel’s hair and had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. At that time Jerusalem, all Judea, and the whole region around the Jordan were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the Jordan River as they acknowledged their sins. (Matthew 3:4-6)
Althought this is from the Gospels and not part of the Old Testament per se., it shows the Jewish custom prior to the time of Jesus of confessing sins orally in conjunction with a ritual “Mikvah” or purification bath. The Mikvah is still practiced today and considered a way for a Jew to become purified and holy. You can read about the modern Mikvah at chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/1541/jewish/The-Mikvah.htm This was the immediate precursor to both baptism and confession.
Recieving the Eucharist in a State of Mortal Sin
Likewise, if someone touches anything unclean, whether it be human uncleanness or an unclean animal or an unclean loathsome creature, and then eats the meat of the communion sacrifice belonging to the LORD, that person, too, shall be cut off from the people. (Leviticus 7:21)
The KJV uses the phrase “Sacrifice of peace offering” instead of “Communion offering.”
Holy Orders
***The LORD said to Moses: Take Aaron along with his sons, the vestments, the anointing oil, the bull for a purification offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread, then assemble the whole community at the entrance of the tent of meeting. Moses did as the LORD had commanded. When the community had assembled at the entrance of the tent of meeting, Moses told them: “This is what the LORD has ordered to be done. Bringing forward Aaron and his sons, Moses first washed them with water. Then he put the tunic on Aaron, girded him with the sash, clothed him with the robe,…(*Leviticus 8:1-7)
There are lots more.
-Tim
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