# “One should also move in the other direction” by John H. Sailhamer

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- Published: 2009-11-12T09:02:54-06:00
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“Evangelical approaches to the Messiah in the Old Testament often have focused on
reading the New Testament back into the Old Testament. I am suggesting that one 
should also move in the other direction.

The Old Testament sheds a great deal of light on the New Testament. Our primary 
objective should be to read the New Testament in light of the Old Testament, not
vice versa.”

–John H. Sailhamer, _[The Meaning of the Pentateuch](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0830838678?tag=toletaupanre-20)_(
Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2009), 246.

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