ANTITYPE

ANTITYPE, a Greek Word, properly signifying a Type or Figure corresponding to some other Type. See TYPE.
The Word Antitype, ἀντίτυπον, occurs twice in the New Testament, viz. in the Epistle to the Hebrews, IX. 24. and in St. Peter, I Ep. III. 21.
where its genuine Import has been much controverted.

The former says, that “Christ is not entered into the Holy Places made with Hands, which are ἀντίτυπα, the Figures or Antitypes of the true; now to appear in the Presence of God for us.”—Now τύπος, as is elsewhere observed, signifies the Pattern by which another Thing is made: and as Moses was obliged to make the Tabernacle, and all Things in it, according to the Pattern shown him in the Mount; the Tabernacle so formed was the Antitype of what was shown to Moses: A Thing therefore formed according to a Model or Pattern, is an Antitype.

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