With less external majesty it was attended; but
it is, on that account, the more wonderful that, under an appearance
so simple, such great events were covered.
III. In this hour the long series of prophecies, visions, types, and
figures were accomplished. This was the center in which they all met:
this the point toward which they had tended and verged, throughout the
course of so many generations. You behold the law and the prophets
standing, if we may speak so, at the foot of the cross, and doing
homage. You behold Moses and Aaron bearing the Ark of the Covenant;
David and Elijah presenting the oracle of testimony. You behold all
the priests and sacrifices, all the rites and ordinances, all the
types and symbols assembled together to receive their consummation.
Without the death of Christ, the worship and ceremonies of the law
would have remained a pompous, but unmeaning, institution. In the hour
when He was crucified, "the book with the seven seals" was opened.
Every rite assumed its significancy; every prediction met its event;
every symbol displayed its correspondence.
The dark and seemingly ambiguous method of conveying important
discoveries under figures and emblems was not peculiar to the sacred
books.
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