The Great Symbols #251961

The word will be used in a somewhat narrower sense in these chapters. The term Symbol has, by general consent, come to be applied to any thing which becomes representative Oi something else. The meaning supplied by Coleridge sufficiently indicates the sense in which it is used in this volume: A symbol is a Sign included in the idea which it represents, eg. An actual part chosen to represent the whole, or a lower form or species used as the representative of a higher in the same kind. In relation to the sacred Scriptures it is almost entirely a synonym of the word type (tupos, a figure), which is used by the apostles in this sense them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression (rom. Now these things happened by way Of example (margin, figure, 1 Cor. Figures which ye made to worship them (acts The pattern showed thee in the mount (heb.