The Type is Consumed by the Real
When the thing comes about of which the sketch was a type,
that which was to be, of which the type bore the likeness,
then the type is destroyed, it has become useless,
it yields up the image to what is truly real.
What was once valuable becomes worthless
when what is of true value appears.
On Pascha
p. 60
Melito of Sardis, On Pascha: With the Fragments of Melito and Other Material Related to the Quartodecimans (trans. Alistair C. Stewart; New York: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2017)