| Back | antitype \AN-ti-tahyp\ |
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| Front | noun Something that is foreshadowed by a type or symbol, as a New Testament event prefigured in the Old Testament. [Antitype comes from the Late Greek word antítypos which meant "the impression left by a die."] These were but the foreshadowing of their great and glorious antitype, Christ and the gospel, which are the spiritual fulfillment of the promises made to Abraham. - J. W. Byers, Sanctification, 2009 The ship in danger is easily understood to be its old antitype, the Commonwealth. - Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub, 1704 |
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