It was this baptism of Jesus in the antetype which occasioned John to know him personally, and enabled him to discover him to others.
The baptism of John, therefore, being a type or figure under the law, was to give way, when the antetype or substance became apparent.
Footnote 155: Antetype is the proper translation, and not "the figure whereunto.
The capsule of mosses is an antetype of monocotyledonous seeds; it is a spathe-leaf with the lateral suture; it springs up in a tubular manner similar to grass-leaves, that free themselves from the nodes of the culm.
As the spiral vessels are the antetype of the leaves, so does the trunk here obtain the form of the leaf, without itself producing true leaves.
The antetype of the bone is, however, the intestine, as the air-vessels are the antetype of the nerves.
What is general in nature, is the antetype of that which is equivalent in an organism.
This radial line gives us the antetype of a new polarity.
Such is the behaviour of Argillaceous earth; it admits besides of combining with water, that antetype of the salts.
Light is a traction of lines or radial action; consequently an antetype of magnetism.
In the fungi, the antetypeof the Acotyledons, it may be almost said that the whole stem is nothing else but albumen, the external layers of which only cling together in a membranaceous manner, and represent a kind of seed-shell.
Hence Reptiles have originally also a coecum, but it has for the most part disappeared; like its antetype the vitelline canal, which is so small in most Fishes and Birds, as to be scarcely distinguishable.
The fatherhood in heaven is admitted to be the antetype of human parentage; and the adoptive brotherhood with Christ, the second Adam, to be the antetype of the natural brotherhood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antetype" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
