Raw reference: nos. 124-125, 128-130, 140
CCC 124
"The Word of God, which is
"The Word of God, which is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, is set forth and displays its power in a most wonderful way in the writings of the New Testament" [DV 17; cf. Rom 1:16] which hand on the ultimate truth of God's Revelation. Their central object is Jesus Christ, God's incarnate Son: his acts, teachings, Passion and glorification, and his Church's beginnings under the Spirit's guidance. [Cf. DV 20.]
CCC 125
The Gospels are the heart of
The Gospels are the heart of all the Scriptures "because they are our principal source for the life and teaching of the Incarnate Word, our Saviour". [DV 18.]
CCC 128
The Church, as early as
The Church, as early as apostolic times, [Cf. I Cor 10:6, 11; Heb 10:1; l Pt 3:21.] and then constantly in her Tradition, has illuminated the unity of the divine plan in the two Testaments through typology, which discerns in God's works of the Old Covenant prefigurations of what he accomplished in the fullness of time in the person of his incarnate Son.
CCC 129
Christians therefore read the
Christians therefore read the Old Testament in the light of Christ crucified and risen. Such typological reading discloses the inexhaustible content of the Old Testament; but it must not make us forget that the Old Testament retains its own intrinsic value as Revelation reaffirmed by our Lord himself. [Cf. Mk 12:29-31] Besides, the New Testament has to be read in the light of the Old. Early Christian catechesis made constant use of the Old Testament. [Cf. I Cor 5:6-8; 10:1-11.] As an old saying put it, the New Testament lies hidden in the Old and the Old Testament is unveiled in the New. [Cf. St. Augustine, Quaest. in Hept. 2, 73: PL 34,623; Cf. DU 16.]
CCC 130
Typology indicates the
Typology indicates the dynamic movement toward the fulfilment of the divine plan when "God [will] be everything to everyone." [1 Cor 15:28] Nor do the calling of the patriarchs and the exodus from Egypt, for example, lose their own value in God's plan, from the mere fact that they were intermediate stages.
CCC 140
The unity of the two
The unity of the two Testaments proceeds from the unity of God's plan and his Revelation. the Old Testament prepares for the New and the New Testament fulfils the Old; the two shed light on each other; both are true Word of God.