You know I like to think of Scripture kind of like an onion. It has many layers.
On the top layer--------Jesus is baptised.
On another layer--------Jesus is annointed by a priest—John the Baptist’s father was a priest and his mother Elizabeth is from the family of Aaron who was Moses’ brother a Levite priest.
On another layer--------So that what God spoke through the Prophets would be fullfilled.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
The senses of Scripture
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According to an ancient tradition, one can distinguish between
two senses of Scripture: the **literal
and the spiritual, the latter being subdivided into the allegorical, moral, and anagogical senses. The profound concordance of the four senses **guarantees all its richness to the living reading of Scripture in the Church.
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The **literal sense **is the meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture and discovered by exegesis, following the rules of sound interpretation: "All other senses of Sacred Scripture are based on the literal."83
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The
spiritual sense. Thanks to the unity of God’s plan, not only the text of Scripture but also the realities and events about which it speaks can be
signs.
1. The
allegorical sense. We can acquire a more profound understanding of events by recognizing their significance in Christ; thus the crossing of the Red Sea is a
sign or type of Christ’s victory and also of Christian Baptism.84
2. The
moral sense. The events reported in Scripture ought to lead us to act justly. As St. Paul says, they were written "
for our instruction."85
3. The
anagogical sense (Greek: anagoge, “leading”). We can view realities and events in terms of their eternal significance, leading us toward our true homeland: thus the Church on earth is a sign of the heavenly Jerusalem.86
**ARTICLE 1
THE REVELATION OF GOD **
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Paragraph 3. The Mysteries of Christ’s Life
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