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(CCC 117) The spiritual atmosphere. Repute to the unity of God's team, not unaccompanied the authenticate of Scripture but furthermore the realities and events about which it speaks can be signs. 1. The not literal atmosphere. We can obtain a superfluous good understanding of events by recognizing their reverberation in Christ; so the sail of the Red Sea is a sign or type of Christ's prevail and furthermore of Christian Identification (Cf. 1 Cor 10:2). 2. The straight atmosphere. The events reported in Scripture indigence to lead us to act beyond doubt. As St. Paul says, they were in print "for our tutoring" (1 Cor 10:11; cf. Heb 3-4:11). 3. The anagogical atmosphere (Greek: anagoge, "leading"). We can view realities and events in terms of their eternal reverberation, leading us on the way to our true homeland: so the Cathedral on earth is a sign of the calm Jerusalem (Cf. Rev 21:1-22:5). (CCC 118) A medieval elegy summarizes the reverberation of the four senses: The Shade speaks of deeds; Fable to faith; The Pleasant how to act; Anagogy our chance (Littera gesta docet, quid credas allegoria, moralis quid agas, quo tendas anagogia. Augustine of Dacia, Rotulus pugillaris. I). (CCC 128) The Cathedral, as beforehand as apostolic period (Cf. 1 Cor 10:6, 11; Heb 10:1; l Pt 3:21), and next repeatedly in her Inclination, has illuminated the unity of the divine team in the two Testaments next to typology, which discerns in God's works of the Old Covenant prefigurations of what he dexterous in the opulence of time in the original of his incarnate Son.
