TYPE

(Gt.tvtos.) In the Fine Arts, the model or pattern in nature of an object used. Thus, in architecture, the types of columns are said to be trees, . . Type. Properly, the figure stamped upon a coin: hence, a figure, sign, or symbol, especially those by which Christ was prefigured to the Jews, as the Brazen Serpent, the Lamb of the Pa over, the Sacrifice of Isaac; or persons whose character and history are considered as embodying an anticipatory representation of the Saviour, as Moses, David, the prophet Jonah, . Many types are referred to as such by the writers of the New Testament; and hence we learn to look for such intentional meaning in what we might otherwise, 4M 4 [s. 1284]