Type

Type, in Theology, specially the foreshadowing in the Old Testament of something realised in the New (the antitype). Thus in the New Testament the brazen serpent is a type of Christ (John, iii. 14), and so is the paschal lamb (1 Cor. v. 7). The seeking and finding of types was carried to an arbitrary extreme in the allegorical interpretation (see EXEGESIS, ORIGEN). See Fairbairn, Typology of Scripture (1845-47; 6th ed. New York, 1880).