The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

VERS. XXIX.

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The Lamb of God.

SAINT John alludes plainly to the Lamb of the daily Sacrifice. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, which in shadow took away the sins of Israel.

I. It was commanded in the Law, that he that offer'd the Sacrifice should lay his hand upon the head of the Sacrifice, Levit. I. 4. & III. 2. & IV. 4, &c.

II. The reason of which usage was that he might, as it were, transfer his sins and guilt upon the head of the offering, which is more especially evident in the scape-goat, Levit. XVI. 22.

Hence Christ is said, Himself to have born our sins in his own body on the tree, I Pet. II. 24. as the offering upon the Altar was wont to do. He was made by God a sin for us, II Cor. V. 21. that is, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 a Sacrifice for sin.

III. The same rite was us'd about the Lamb of the daily Sacrifice that was offer'd for all Israel. The stationary men [as they were called] or the Substitutes of the people, laying their hands upon the head of the Lamb. a 1.1

To this therefore the words of the Baptist refer: The Lamb of God, that is, the daily Sacrifice, taketh away the sins of the world, as the Sacrifice did for all Israel. Behold here the true Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world.

Notes

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  Taanith. cap. 4. hal. 2.