Pilgrim,
I am still more than just a bit confused. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/scratch1.gif" alt="" /> I don't think anyone has a problem with explicit allegory such as "I am the door" or "I am the true vine". But what about implicit allegory such as found in Malachi 4:2:
"But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings: and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall."
This from Calvins commentary:
"The meaning then of the word sun, when metaphorically applied to Christ, is this, -- that he is called a sun, because without him we cannot but wander and go astray, but that by his guidance we shall keep in the right way; and hence he says,
"He who follows me walks not in darkness." (John 8:12.)
But we must observe that this is not to be confined to the person of Christ, but extended to the gospel. Hence Paul says,
"Awake thou who sleepest, and rise from darkness,
and Christ shall illuminate thee." (Ephesians 5:14)"
Calvin goes on to say that there is no doubt that this O.T. verse refers to the risen Christ.
Denny
Romans 3:22
