Meaning of 'antitype' in Maltese is: antitype

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Noun(1) a person or thing represented or foreshadowed by an earlier type or symbol; especially a figure or event in the New Testament having a counterpart in the Old Testament(2) an opposite or contrasting type(3) a person or thing represented or foreshadowed by a type or symbol(4) especially a figure in the Old Testament having a counterpart in the New Testament

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(1) New Testament worship is not typological; the antitype has come.(2) He goes beyond masculinity in the only fatherhood worthy of the name, and is at the same time, in this eternal virginity, the antitype of all motherhood.(3) the ship in danger is easily understood to be its old antitype, the Commonwealth(4) But Prynne's work is not prose but poetry, its antitype .(5) The Old Testament type did not merely stand for the New Testament antitype : both were equally real events in the flow of history.(6) The eighties, as arbitrary ten-year wedges of time go, was the antitype of the sixties, its silver-and-black negative - which means of course that the eighties has the potential to be as controversial and symbolic as the sixties became.(7) Within this clearly defined conjunction of market types, the old fishwife has a role to play that is fully legitimate: she is the social antitype to her customers, but also their economic partner in exchange.(8) It would at the same time make the reason for the First Testament choices even more mystifying since the type corresponding to the antitype often resides in a few phrases as demonstrated above.(9) There is also an antitype which now saves us-baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), though the resurrection of Jesus Christ,(10) the antitype of female virtue(11) Protestant divines had tended to restrict typology to figures, actions, and objects in the Old Testament which in their view shadowed forth Christ as their antitype .(12) Finally, we see him holy in his death, as the antitype of the sin offerings of old.(13) Needless to say, the Old Testament teems with such types and pictures which (as we saw last month) were specifically given to provide insight, instruction and illumination in relation to their new-covenant antitypes .(14) This was done by the priests, and the church is a part of the antitypical priesthood.(15) It has Romeo and Juliet undertones and both Hilton and Borgnine who usually play good guy roles here play antitypical bad guys.(16) The first is an antitype of the Resurrection and, unlike the more formal Old Testament antitypes , offers direct evidence of Christ's ability to save those close to him.