prefigurations

Saviour is intelligible only in the light of His work as teacher, this part of the life of Christ was also added, while some authors of these plays went back to the Old Testament for symbolical scenes, which they added to the Passion Plays as "prefigurations"; or the plays begin with the Creation, the sin of Adam and Eve, and the fall of the Angels.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

These Old Testament prefigurations are brought forward into the Book of

Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

It also consists in Edwards 'extension of typology, the practice of interpreting things, persons, or events (the “type”) as symbols or prefigurations of future realities (the “antitype”).

Jonathan Edwards Wainwright, William 2009

The text and pictures of the Speculum are devoted to the interpretation of the New Testament through prefigurations in the Old, the so-called typological system, which was the medieval way of relating the Old Testament to the life of Jesus Christ.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

In particular, and in a very clever way, he allows us to see all the prefigurations of that rising American influence, which, slowly accreting, was to burst upon the post-1945 British as if it had come as a complete surprise.

Downhill All the Way 2006

In particular, and in a very clever way, he allows us to see all the prefigurations of that rising American influence, which, slowly accreting, was to burst upon the post-1945 British as if it had come as a complete surprise.

Downhill All the Way 2006

In particular, and in a very clever way, he allows us to see all the prefigurations of that rising American influence, which, slowly accreting, was to burst upon the post-1945 British as if it had come as a complete surprise.

Downhill All the Way 2006

The major events in the Old Testament appear as prefigurations in art.

A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975

Considered prefigurations of the Apostles, they are often grouped together in Christian art, a row of prophets on the left, a row of Apostles on the right.

A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975

The major events in the Old Testament appear as prefigurations in art.

A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975