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January 03, 2010 Why did John introduce Jesus as "the Lamb of God"?That he would be revealed to Israel. That Jesus is the Lamb of GodThis was said in allusion to what was spoken Isa_53:7. Jesus was the true Lamb or Sacrifice required and appointed by God, of which those offered daily in the tabernacle and temple, Exo_29:38, Exo_29:39, and especially the paschal lamb, were only the types and representatives. See Exo_12:4, Exo_12:5; 1Co_5:7. The continual morning and evening sacrifice of a lamb, under the Jewish law, was intended to point out the continual efficacy of the blood of atonement: for even at the throne of God, Jesus Christ is ever represented as a lamb newly slain, Rev_5:6. But John, pointing to Christ, calls him emphatically, the Lamb of God: - all the lambs which had been hitherto offered had been furnished by men: this was provided by God, as the only sufficient and available sacrifice for the sin of the world. In three essential respects, this lamb differed from those by which it was represented. 1st. It was the Lamb of God; the most excellent, and the most available. 2nd. It made an atonement for sin: it carried sin away in reality, the others only representatively. 3rd. It carried away the sin of the World, whereas the other was offered only on behalf of the Jewish people. In Yalcut Rubeni, fol. 30, it is said, "The Messiah shall bear the sins of the Israelites." But this salvation was now to be extended to the whole world. |
By: narciso amabao - January 03, 2010 - Public Category: Jesus the Lamb of God
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