when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah -- an ark being preparing -- in which few, that is, eight souls, were preserved through water; The antitype of which (the spiritual counterpart of the physical ark) also now saves us -- immersing not flesh yet putting away filth. Granting a clear conscience unto God through the rising again of Jesus Christ,
1 Pet 3:20 "Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:"
The underlying word for "like figure" is antitypos and means a mirror reflection. If you looked into a mirror, then you are the type and your reflection is an exact anti-type to you the type.
A die would be a type and the imprint the die leaves is the anti-type, a mirror reflection of the type.
The point Peter is making is the OT type is 8 souls "saved by water" and the anti-type to that/the mirror reflection to that is us also are "saved by water".
Peter did NOT say 8 souls saved by an ark but said 8 souls "saved by water". The "saved by an ark" does not fit the type to anti-type connection Peter made for we today are not saved by a literal ark but saved by literal water (baptism) as Noah was saved by literal water (flood).
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