Red Sea is represented as a preparatory step, and as prefiguringthe occupation of Canaan--the latter being contained in it as in a germ.
Jesus, prefiguring the future doings of His servants, passed over the boundaries of the Gentiles.
This text is often cited by Christian writers and controversialists as prefiguring the mission of the Christian Savior, viz.
There are certain essences mentioned in the Old Testament prefiguring the Virgin.
But none but a contentious man can suppose that there was no prefiguring of the church in so manifold and circumstantial a detail.
Prophecies in action," our friend Joinville called the prefiguring of the New Law by the Old, so popular during the Middle Ages.
If all true art is but a symbol, a prefiguring of the mystery, these churches veil and reveal the coming harmonies of the Beyond as it never before was revealed and veiled.
Each episode of the Saviour's life is accompanied by scenes of the Old Testament, prefiguring it.
The play represented Joseph, with all his honors upon him, receiving his old father and his brothers--prefiguring the Ascension of Christ.
The third part was Das Opfermahl--the offering of bread and wine by Melchisedek to Abraham, prefiguring the Last Supper.
This ended the first part, Cain's hate prefiguring the hatred toward Christ.
Women met to discuss them in each other's parlours, prefiguring the era of clubs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prefiguring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
