Lamb

LAMB. Under the Word Lamb in Scripture the Kid is sometimes comprehended; for Example, the Hebrews at the Passover were left at Liberty to chuse indifferently either the one or the other for a Victim¹. The original Seb in general signifies the Young either of a Goat or Ewe. Agnus anniculus, which is translated a Lamb of a Year old, may likewise be interpreted a Lamb of the Year, born in the Year, but that does not suck: For to sacrifice the Paschal Lamb while it used the Exod. xii. 5. Exod. xxiii. 19.Teat, and seethe it in the Milk of its Dam, was a Thing prohibited. Upon every other Occasion the Law required, that the Young should be left eight Days with its Dam before Exod. xxii. 30. Lev. xxii. 27.it was offered in Sacrifice.

The Prophets represent the Messiah to us like a Lamb abounding in Meekness, which If. liii. 7. Jerem. xi. 19. Joh. i. 29, 36. Rev. v. 6, 8, 12, 13. vi. 1. vii. 9. xii. 11, &c.is sheered and carried to the Altar without making a Complaint. St. John Baptist describes our Saviour by the Name of the Lamb of God; and in many Places of the Revelations he is pointed out to us under the Idea of a Lamb that has been sacrificed. In Isaiah xii. 6. it is said, that in the Time of the Messiah, the Lamb and the Wolf will feed peaceably together; and in the Gospel the Wicked at the Day of Judgment are compared to Goats, the Righteous to Lambs. Our Saviour sent his Disciples to preach the Gospel to the Gentiles like Lambs amidst Wolves. Luke x. 3.

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