13在新约时代之前,就是在主成为肉体之前,神在地上拣选了一班称为以色列的人。……他们的先祖是亚伯拉罕。到了摩西的时候,当他们出埃及时,他们已经成了一个族类,至少有两百万人。从那时候起,他们就成为新约神所拣选之召会的预表。……旧约有以色列人,新约有召会。这两班人……乃是描述神所作的一件事;这件事就是神经纶的完成。……在神的经纶里,以色列人只是一个预表、一个表号、一个影儿。……以色列人乃是预表召会。
13Before the New Testament age, that is, before the Lord’s incarnation, God had chosen a people on this earth called Israel ... Their forefather was Abraham. Then by Moses’ time, at their exodus from Egypt, they became a race that had at least two million people. Since then, they have become a type of the church as God’s elect in the New Testament ...The Old Testament has Israel, and the New Testament has the church... These two peoples are a description of one thing that God has done, and this one thing is the accomplishment of God’s economy... In God’s economy the people of Israel are just a type, a figure, a shadow... Israel typifies the church.