Christ is the one prefigured; because He must ever stand above, far above, all created beings: as much above man, as man is above the lowest reptile. Still, as man, the Lord Jesus is capable of being represented, or prefigured. There are points of resemblance in the character and conduct of some holy men, that we are told in God's Word are typical of our Lord. In Rom. v. 14, we are told that Adam is a type of Christ:-"Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of Him that was to come."
At first sight I daresay it will seem strange to you that the man who brought sin and misery and death into the world, should be a type of our blessed Lord. But so it is; and we often find, when we study God's Word, and get the teaching of God's Holy Spirit, that what we should have thought impossible, is nevertheless God's truth and then we are surprised to find how blind and ignorant we are by nature.
The Lord tells us this in 1 Cor. ii. 14:"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." So that you see, to understand the types, or indeed any