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aussieannie
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Posted: Feb 03 2007 at 3:17pm \| IP Logged

A good suggestion by Helen about a separate thread for the biblical references to Mary in the True Devotion - there is bound to be MANY and so a separate thread is appropriate.

Just requoting myself:

True Devotion wrote:

I declare with the saints: Mary is the earthly paradise of Jesus Christ the new Adam, where he became man by the power of the Holy Spirit, in order to accomplish in her wonders beyond our understanding. She is the vast and divine world of God where unutterable marvels and beauties are to be found. She is the magnificence of the Almighty where he hid his only Son, as in his own bosom, and with him everything that is most excellent and precious. What great and hidden things the all-powerful God has done for this wonderful creature, as she herself had to confess in spite of her great humility, "The Almighty has done great things for me." The world does not know these things because it is incapable and unworthy of knowing them.

I wanted to say something about a sentence in this paragraph and there will be many others to come I know. It has been a *revelation* upon entering this book again and so quickly into it, to finally see that St Louis deMonfort draws on biblical typology in his treatise.

Just a reminder, what typology is:

Typology is a special kind of symbolism. (A symbol is something which represents something else.) We can define a type as a “prophetic symbol” because all types are representations of something yet future. More specifically, a type in scripture is a person or thing in the Old Testament which foreshadows a person or thing in the New. For example, the flood of Noah’s day (Genesis 6-7) is used to typify baptism in 1 Peter 3:20-21. The word for type that Peter uses is figure.

I remember being really moved by Scott Hahn's book Hail Holy Queen with his use of biblical typology and a thorough biblical understanding of Mary, it was eye opener for me. I have often used his explainations for some things that can be tricky to discuss with my protestant brethern in Christ. To me, at the time, it seemed *new* - like a breath of fresh air, building on my understanding of Mary and yet here it is, or should I say, "always was."

I can't believe that I didn't make the connection years ago and really understand what St Louis was saying.

This particular sentence from the True Devotion, “Mary is the earthly paradise of Jesus Christ the new Adam” - I had read once, that there is a lot of biblical typology for the support of the Immaculate Conception. One being that Jesus is the new Adam (Mary is the new Eve too, I know) but that Jesus (the new Adam) came from Mary – Adam came from the dust of the earth that was newly created and *immaculate* “God looked on it and saw that it was good.”

It is nice to discover something that was always there but seemingly hidden to me in the past.

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Posted: Feb 05 2007 at 6:15am \| IP Logged

True Devotion wrote:

Even at his death she had to be present so that he might be united with her in one sacrifice and be immolated with her consent to the eternal Father, just as formerly Isaac was offered in sacrifice by Abraham when he accepted the will of God.

Just some more biblical typology to place on this thread. This has a double meaning: Jesus - Isaac, God the Father - Abraham : Jesus - Isaac, Mary - Abraham.

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