Still 'raptured with the world,' he surveys life's receding shores, as if booked for its more luminous, harmonious antitype. |
The language of Daniel is prophetic, and Darius has in another an antitype. |
He goes beyond masculinity in the only fatherhood worthy of the name, and is at the same time, in this eternal virginity, the antitype of all motherhood. |
She is praised by contrast with the antitype, Thryth, just as Beowulf was praised by contrast with Heremod. |
Finally, we see him holy in his death, as the antitype of the sin offerings of old. |
So the baptism of Jesus is not merely a symbol, which many people say like that, but the antitype of salvation. |