Types and Antitypes

I have begun a new project for this site on this Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. It is a new tab entitled: Types and Antitypes. These will relate to the five Acts of the great drama in the Rosarium Aureum.

Here is one definition of 'type' and 'antitype':

a person, a thing, or an action, having its own independent and absolute existence ('type'), but at the same time intended by God to prefigure a future person, thing, or action ('antitype'). [Traditional Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913]

Here is an example by way of illustration:

The Ark of the Covenant contained:

•     Moses’ two stone tablets of the Ten Commandments
•     Manna, the bread from Heaven
•     Aaron’s rod which had budded with life

Compare this with the new Ark of the Covenant:

• Instead of God’s Word written in stone, Mary’s womb contained the Word made flesh
• Instead of manna from the wilderness, Mary’s womb contained the Bread of Life
• Instead of a staff from the first Levitical high priest, Aaron, Mary’s womb contained the great High Priest Himself, Jesus Christ
• Instead of a budding staff symbolizing resurrection, Mary’s womb contained the Resurrection and the Life Himself