Jesus is a Lamb in Respect of His Human Nature. - ANF09. The Gospel of Peter, The Diatessaron of Tatian, The Apocalypse of Peter, the Vision of Paul, The Apocalypse of the Virgin and Sedrach, The Testament of Abraham, The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, The Narrative of Zosimus, The Apology of Aristides, The Epistles of Clement (complete text), Origen’s Commentary on John, Books 1–10, and Commentary on Matthew, Books 1, 2, and 10

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35. Jesus is a Lamb in Respect of His Human Nature.

If we enquire further into the significance of Jesus being pointed out by John, when he says, “This is the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world,” we may take our stand at the dispensation of the bodily advent of the Son of God in human life, and in that case we shall conceive the lamb to be no other than the man. For the man “was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb, dumb before his shearers,”⁴⁹⁶⁰

⁴⁹⁶⁰ Isa. liii. 7.
saying, “I was as like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter.”⁴⁹⁶¹

⁴⁹⁶¹ Jer. xi. 19.
Hence, too, in the Apocalypse⁴⁹⁶²

⁴⁹⁶² v. 6.
a lamb is seen, standing as if slain. This slain lamb has been made, according to certain hidden reasons, a purification of the whole world, for which, according to the Father’s love to man, He submitted to death, purchasing us back by His own blood from him who had got us into his power, sold under sin. And He who led this lamb to the slaughter was God in man, the great High-Priest, as he shows by the words:⁴⁹⁶³

⁴⁹⁶³ John x. 18.
“No one taketh My life away from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.”
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