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Antitype

noun

A person or thing represented or foreshadowed by a type or symbol; especially a figure in the Old Testament having a counterpart in the New Testament.

An opposite or contrasting type.

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Etymology of 'Antitype'

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"Antitype" Quotes from Famous Books

... the universe are united in God. God and nature are two magnitudes which are quite alike. The whole sum of harmonic activity which exists together in the divine substance, is in nature the antitype of this substance, united to incalculable degrees, and measures, and steps. If I may be allowed this expressive imagery, nature is an infinitely ...

— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... created the aerial earth as a place of habitation for those who had come forth, so that they might dwell therein until the strengthening of those who are below them; then created He the true habitation in the interior of that, the place of repentance in the interior of that, the antitype of Aerodios; then the place of repentance in the interior of that, the antitype of Autogenes: in this place they baptise themselves in the name of Autogenes, who is God over them, and there are Powers placed in this place over the Fount of the Waters of Life which they make go forth. ...

— The Gnosis of the Light • F. Lamplugh

... proposition, As the mean of two extremes— (This was learned from Aldric's themes) 10 Shielding from the guilt of schism The orthodoxal syllogism; The First Peter—he who was Like the shadow in the glass Of the second, yet unripe, 15 His substantial antitype.— ...

— Peter Bell the Third • Percy Bysshe Shelley

Words linked to "Antitype" : kind, representation, antitypic, mental representation, sort, type, form, variety, internal representation