Jesus in the Fathers

On the road to Emmaus, Jesus revealed Himself in all the Scriptures . . . . . . In fact He started with the Books of Moses, so we know Jesus must appear somewhere in the stories of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and his sons. However, we may not realise quite how much of Him there is to find, from the ‘Tree that pointed the way’ to Abram (Genesis 12) through the object of Jacob’s faith (Genesis 49) right up to Joseph’s death and burial (Genesis 50). Jesus is anticipated by the Patriarchs in ways they could never fully grasp, but we can with the advantage of hindsight and just a little bit of digging . . .  By Christen Forster