He was Himself prefigured in the times of the first people and the first temple, in which all things were figures for our ensample.
For he declares that the free mother of us all, the heavenly Jerusalem, that is to say, the true Church of God, was prefiguredin that woman who cruelly entreated her handmaid.
The priestly office, with the blood of the sacrifices connected with it, prefigured Christ, "the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
The priestly office, with its sacrifices, was the central part of the Mosaic economy, for it prefigured Christ our great High Priest, with his all-perfect sacrifice on Calvary for the sins of the world.
Solomon, and represents the Messiah as the Prince of Peace, imperfectlyprefigured by Solomon as His type.
If the building of the temple fall into ruins, it is only the Davidic race from which its restoration can proceed; the local relation of the royal palace to the temple prefigured their close union.
That which was, on a large scale, to be done by Christ in the state of glorification, was prefigured by Him, on a smaller scale, in the state of humiliation.
It had, for its real object, the condition of the kingdom of God which was prefigured by the condition of the mountain; and it is just this to which the consolation has respect.
Noah prefigured the suffering of Christ, as held by SS.
Still another exploit--one at which the Church might well have stood aghast--was his statement that the drunkenness of Noah prefigured the suffering and death of Christ.
The prophecy which He uttered was twofold in its meaning: while foreshadowing the destruction of Jerusalem, it prefiguredalso the terrors of the last great day.
It prefigured the closing work in the ministration of our High Priest in heaven, in the removal or blotting out of the sins of His people, which are registered in the heavenly records.
A prophecy of the coming of Christ, and of his kingdom: prefigured by Solomon and his happy reign.
The glorious establishment of the church of the New Testament, prefigured by the benefits bestowed on the people of Israel.
They were so many types, shadows and forms of which He was the great prototype--the substance, the reality prefigured and foreshadowed by the other sacrifices which had been offered up from the beginning.
The day of atonement prefigured the atonement of Christ, and the year of jubilee, the gospel jubilee.
I rocked thee in sweet delighting dreams, and prefigured to thee thy adventures; and when a brood-mare or a foal had chanced to wander from the herd, I told thee of the place where thou wouldst find it.
The pyramid is only the cone in which Nature arranges her heaped and sliding fragments; the cone with flattened Surfaces, as it is prefigured in certain well-known crystalline forms.
The ungracious aspect of the woman and the defiant attitude of the child prefigured in one brief instant the history of many long coming years.
The accomplishments which we find in their choicer circles were prefigured in the court of the chivalric Saladin, and the long train of Painim knights who rode forth to conquest under the Crescent.
This intussusception of the ideas of inanimate objects, and their faithful storing away among the sentiments, are curiously prefigured in the material structure of the thinking centre itself.
It is prefigured in the perturbations of the planets, in the disintegration of the elemental masses; it has left its traces in the fossil organisms of extinct creations.
And by this was fitly prefigured how unseen the strength of the church under persecution is of all that are without her.
All these things are true in the antitype, and, as I think, prefigured by these turning stairs to the chambers of the temple.
There remains therefore a rest, a rest prefigured by the seventh day, and by the rest of Canaan, though they are fled and gone.
The day of rest and worship to the Christian, is a much stronger type, yet but a shadow of the holy enjoyments of his eternal rest, prefigured from the finishing of the mightier work of redemption.
This was prefigured by the bells, as I said, which did hang on the border of Aaron's garments.
Light therefore against light now is in the Christians, truly prefigured by that which was in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
Christ, as the Son offered by the Father and the sacrificial Ram, is prefigured in the neighbouring statue of Abraham with his son Isaac, whom he holds ready bound for the sacrifice.
We have been shown Him expected, prophesied, prefigured and again realising the prophecies and fulfilling all the acts of His divine mission.
They are the personages of the Old Testament who have prefigured the birth of Jesus Christ, His passion, His death, His resurrection and His eternal priesthood.
These words prefigured the rise of a similar sentiment among non-Bahá’í observers during the Islamic revolutionary years; and this was to become one of the most powerful forces propelling the emergence of the Cause from obscurity.
All this is vividly prefigured by the deluge and the ark, in the days of Noah.
There might be, and were, other services among the Levites of a very blessed nature, but surely it was most elevated service to carry through the desert that which so strikingly prefigured the character of Christ.
No image of French grace or of French modes was prefigured to the mind of the parson; his imagination had different range.
The chance befell presently, but when he came to write his note to Constance Elliott the thing was harder to do than he hadprefigured it.
Thereupon ensued other visits to the house in Colfax Avenue, and a growing and confidential intimacy with Constance, and the enlisting of Stephen Elliott in the cause of justice, and many other things not prefigured in Lansdale's itinerary.
To nature's eye there would seem to have been a reserve and a severity about Him which were aptly prefigured by the "covering of goats' hair.
The advent of that Divine Man "who hath abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light," was the great event prefigured during the historic ages.
The advent of man simply as such was the great event prefigured during the old geologic ages.
Because of the unbelief of its people it became a subject of lamentation to Jesus when in sorrow He prefigured the judgment that would befall the place.
Of the time and place of his death the scriptures do not speak; but the manner thereof was prefigured by the resurrected Lord,[465] and in part was foreseen by Peter himself.
Such a threefold distinction is prefigured in the Leibnizian metaphysics, and is more or less native to every philosophy that is genuinely speculative.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prefigured" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: foreshown; indicated; predicted; presaged; promised; threatened
