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antitype

NOUN
  1. an opposite or contrasting type
  2. a person or thing represented or foreshadowed by an earlier type or symbol; especially a figure or event in the New Testament having a counterpart in the Old Testament
    Aaron and Jesus Christ are the type and antitype for the high priest who made atonement for the sins of the people

How To Use antitype In A Sentence

  • The ‘holy mountain’ here is obviously not Sinai and likely not Zion, but the mount of the transfiguration, which becomes their antitype.
  • The eighties, as arbitrary ten-year wedges of time go, was the antitype of the sixties, its silver-and-black negative - which means of course that the eighties has the potential to be as controversial and symbolic as the sixties became.
  • There is also an antitype which now saves us-baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), though the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
  • It would at the same time make the reason for the First Testament choices even more mystifying since the type corresponding to the antitype often resides in a few phrases as demonstrated above.
  • New Testament worship is not typological; the antitype has come.
  • But Prynne's work is not prose but poetry, its antitype.
  • In the ordinance of the Lord's Supper, a beautiful antitype of the table of shewbread is seen.
  • The traditional depiction of Lilith from ancient Mesopotamia through medieval Kabbalah presents an antitype of desired human sexuality and family life. Lilith.
  • Protestant divines had tended to restrict typology to figures, actions, and objects in the Old Testament which in their view shadowed forth Christ as their antitype. Jonathan Edwards
  • The Old Testament figure was called the type and the figure in the New Testament which paralleled it was called the antitype. A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art
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