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Prefiguration

noun
1.
An example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come.
2.
The act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand.  Synonyms: adumbration, foreshadowing.





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"Prefiguration" Quotes from Famous Books



... position of Moses in the economy of the revelations of God, it is, a priori, scarcely conceivable that he should have contented himself with communicating a prophecy of the Messiah uttered by a non-Israelite. We expect that, as a prefiguration of the testimony which, in the presence of the chief among the apostles, he bore to the Messiah after He had appeared (compare Matt. xvii. 3), he should, on his own behalf, testify his faith in Him, and direct the people to Him. This testimony we have in ...
— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, v. 1 • Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg


Words linked to "Prefiguration" :   model, foreshadowing, prediction, example, anticipation, prefigure, prevision


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