ANTITYPE (Gr. avriruaos)  , the correlative of " type," to which it corresponds as the stamp to the die, or vice versa . In the sense of copy or likeness the word occurs in the Greek New Testament (Heb. ix . 24; 1 Peter iii . 21), English " figure." By theological writers antitype is employed to denote'the reality of which a type is the prophetic symbol . Thus, Christ is the anti-type of many of the types of the Jewish ritual . By the fathers of the Greek church (e.g . Gregory Nazianzen) antitype is employed as a designation of the bread and wine in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper .