The Hyperlinked Bible organizes Christological connections by Greidanus's Seven Ways — Sidney Greidanus's seven methods for preaching Christ from the Old Testament (Preaching Christ from the Old Testament). Every Trajectory Table has been classified by the method(s) operative in its Christ-connection. For the reader-friendly introduction, see Seven Ways to See Jesus.
Six of the seven ways are classified per-Trajectory-Table below. The seventh — New Testament References — is not a TT category, because it is everywhere: every Trajectory Table's NT-fulfillment stages, all 1,334 NT-to-OT Intertextuality Pairs, and every colored † cross on an OT chapter are that method in action. Browse it through the Intertextuality Pairs Index.
| Method | TT Count | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Typology | 174 | OT persons, events, and institutions divinely designed to correspond to and be escalated by Christ (type → antitype with analogical correspondence, historicity, escalation). |
| Promise-Fulfillment | 77 | Explicit divine commitments made in the OT that find fulfillment in Christ's person and work. The text makes or develops a promise; Christ fulfills it. |
| Redemptive-Historical Progression | 71 | The grand narrative arc — Creation → Fall → Promise → Exodus → Monarchy → Exile → Return → Christ — read in light of where the story is going. |
| Analogy | 43 | Structural principles of God's ways that hold across redemptive history. The OT reveals how God works; that same pattern applies to Christ and the new covenant. |
| Longitudinal Theme | 114 | Canon-wide theological motifs traced from first appearance through progressive development to their climax in Christ (covenant, kingdom, temple, seed, shepherd, etc.). |
| Contrast | 76 | The OT text or institution reveals inadequacy, failure, or incompleteness that points beyond itself to Christ, who succeeds where it failed and fulfills what it could not. |
Total: 189 Trajectory Tables classified across the 6 TT-applicable methods (most TTs use multiple methods); the seventh way, NT References, runs through the entire Intertextuality Pair corpus.