ANTITYPE, the correlative of "type," to which it corre sponds either as the stamp to the die or as the die to the stamp (Gr. avTLTV7ros). It is used in the New Testament in Heb. ix. 24, I. Peter iii. 21, translated "figure" (A.V.) and "pattern" or "likeness" (R.V.). So, theologically, it denotes the reality behind the symbol or copy; e.g., Christ the antitype, of which the Jew ish ritual is the type. In the Greek Fathers (e.g., Irenacus, Gre gory Nazianzen) the bread and wine in the Eucharist are called antitypes.