Is there continuity?

Salvation from sins is not something that was expected in the Old Testament and is therefore not even a major theme of the Old Testament, let alone its defining and central subject. If one were to try to draw connections between salvation from sins in the New Testament and deliverance from slavery or exile in the Old Testament, again difficult obstacles would have to be overcome since these crises are very different from the problem of sin.—Walton and Walton, The Lost World of the Torah, 157