antitype
/an-ti-tahyp/US // ˈæn tɪˌtaɪp //UK // (ˈæntɪˌtaɪp) //
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
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- : something that is foreshadowed by a type or symbol, as a New Testament event prefigured in the Old Testament.
Examples
The great Antitype was a literal embodiment of the symbolic panoply of his lesser type.
This loathing had its physical antitype in his horror of the sight or description of bodily disease.
Type needs antitype: As night needs day, as shine needs shade, so good Needs evil: how were pity understood Unless by pain?
All things in the elementary world have their antitype in the celestial, and all celestial things have their corresponding ideas.
A type is a symbol appointed by God to adumbrate something higher in the future, which is called the antitype.
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