Equally untenable is the other opinion, that the prophet is here called upon, by his entering into a new marriage, to prefigure the relation of God to the Covenant-people a second time.
The Canaanitish woman is a representative of the heathen world, the future faith of which she was called to prefigure by sustaining the trial.
The friendships of young girls prefigure the closer relations which will one day come in and dissolve their earlier intimacies.
What action he would take when he should recover was as easy to prefigure as it was, for the present at least, a matter negligible.
It was a stirring of the Philistine in him that led him to prefigure weariness and banality in the prospect.
Was it not natural, then, that He should take to prefigure Him, a man who, like others, had sinned?
The restoration and enlargement whichprefigure Christ "The Jew," Ch.
This is used by the prophet to foreshadow the coming destruction and restoration of Israel and this restoration is also doubtless used to prefigure Christian church and its triumph on earth.
For it was founded not for its own sake, but to prefigure another city; and this shadow of a city was also itself foreshadowed by another preceding figure.
And did theyprefigure an atonement and a jubilee to Jews only?
And did they prefigure an atonement and a jubilee to Jews only?
But all this wreck and ruin exerts a saddening influence; it seems to prefigure the Death of the Mountain.
The death of the year seemed to prefigure the glorious and surprising changes of color in a dying dolphin--putting on unparalleled beauty at the moment of dissolution, and so going out in a blaze of glory.
Some conceive Abram's sufferings at this time, designed to prefigure the legal dispensation, under which his seed were to continue long and suffer many things.
The most terrifying metaphors are used to prefigure the judgments which will then be executed on mankind.
