“First comes the meaning of the Old Testament. The early Christians accepted the Jewish Scriptures as divinely inspired, but interpreted them in a completely different way. They did not regard the Old Testament as a prelude to Christianity, which the new revelation in Christ augmented or displaced. The only Christian who said anything like this was Marcion (d. c. 144), who tried to expunge the New Testament of all reference to the Jews on the ground that the Jewish God was an inferior being to the God of Jesus Christ, and therefore did not deserve Christian worship. Christians generally believed that the Old Testament spoke about Jesus Christ, not merely prophetically but in types and allegories which the Holy Spirit revealed to Christians.”

(Gerald Bray, Creeds, Councils and Christ: Did the Early Christians Misrepresent Jesus?, Great Britain: Mentor, 1997, 49)