In the ESV, First Corinthian 10.6 reads: “Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.”
But Richard Hays points out the Greek is “τυποι ημων”–types of us. Israel in the wilderness finds its fulfillment in the New Testament Church.
In Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul, Hays provides more evidence that Paul’s typological readings more often went from Israel to Church than Israel to Christ.
Wow, I need that book. Sounds wonderful. (Unfortunately both NASB, NKJV translate tupos there as examples also.)
Yeah, I learned from “Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul,” but I found it irritating that he pitted Christological typology against ecclesiastical typology. In my mind, Christology leads to ecclesiology: it is true of the church because it is true of Christ, not in spite of it.