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  • These are the points at which the Old and New Testaments most nearly touch, the (tupoi) types or ensamples of the one which we find in the other, the pre-notions or preparations with which we pass from Moses and the Prophets to the Gospel of

    The Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans: Essays and Dissertations 1817-1893 1894

  • Speaking of the wilderness life of the Israelites, from their baptism in the cloud and in the sea, he says: "Now these things happened unto them by way of types [_tupoi_], and they were written for our admonition."

    Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings Robert Graham 1861

  • Yesterday, several voters on the streets of Kiev dismissed him as tupoi - a Russian word for stupid or obtuse.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • (Republic): the comparison of philosophy to a yelping she-dog, both in the Republic and in the Laws: the remark that no man can practise two trades (Laws; Republic): or the advantage of the middle condition (Laws; Republic): the tendency to speak of principles as moulds or forms; compare the ekmageia of song (Laws), and the tupoi of religion (Republic): or the remark (Laws) that

    Laws 2006

  • 15: [Greek: hai treis hêmerai tupoi heisin tês triados, tou Theou kai tou logou autou kai tês sophias autou]; see II.

    History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

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