Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or of the nature of an antitype.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to an antitype; explaining the type.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to an antitype.

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  • adjective of or relating to an antitype

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Examples

  • Soon your typical homestead shall be exchanged for your antitypical home; and we shall unite in the home-song of everlasting joy, -- the song of, "unto Him that loved us and washed us in His own blood, to Him be praise and glory and dominion forever!"

    The Christian Home Samuel Philips

  • This distinction is also clear in the antitypical relation.

    The Last Reformation 1913

  • We are living in the great antitypical day of atonement, for which all heaven has been waiting.

    Our Day In the Light of Prophecy William Ambrose Spicer 1908

  • True to the type, as the year 1844 drew near, when the great antitypical day of atonement was to open and the closing work of Christ to begin in the most holy place of the heavenly temple, the trumpet call of the approaching judgment hour was set pealing through all Christendom.

    Our Day In the Light of Prophecy William Ambrose Spicer 1908

  • Israel, both the literal and the spiritual (including the innocents), at the Lord's second advent, are antitypical of the restoration of

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • As the moral condition of the Jews required in each instance, so Messiah was exhibited in a corresponding phase, thus becoming more and more the soul of the nation's life: so that He is represented as the antitypical Israel (Isa 49: 3). unto David -- Hengstenberg observes that Isaiah dwells more on His prophetical and priestly office, which had already been partly set forth (De 18: 18; Ps 110: 4).

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • (Messiah, the antitypical "Israel"), the antecedent there (Isa 49: 3), we have "she" here, that is, Jerusalem.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • The more remote and antitypical event, however, namely, Messiah's coming, is that to which he always hastens, and which he describes with far more minuteness than he does the nearer type; for example, Cyrus (compare Isa 45: 1 with Isa 53: 1-12).

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • But this ideal is realized only in the antitypical Israel, its representative-man and Head, Messiah (compare Mt 2: 15, with Ho 11: 1).

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • David -- God's covenant is with the antitypical David,

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

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