John 15:1

John 15:1. I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Not only the Mosaic law, but the whole creation is full of types of Christ. All the vines that we see in this world are only as it were typical; but Christ is the substance,-the substance of nature as well as of grace: "I am the true vine," and the real Husbandman, who watches over everything, who has the whole Church, yea, the whole universe, under his care, is the great Father: "My Father is the husbandman."