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15. That
Christ is called a sheep and a lamb who was to be slain, and concerning
the sacrament (mystery) of the passion.
In Isaiah: “He was led as a sheep to
the slaughter, and as a lamb before his shearer is dumb, so He opened
not His mouth. In His humiliation His judgment was taken
away: who shall relate His nativity? Because His life shall
be taken away from the earth. By the transgressions of my people
He was led to death; and I will give the wicked for His burial, and the
rich themselves for His death; because He did no wickedness, nor
deceits with His mouth. Wherefore He shall gain many, and shall
divide the spoils of the strong; because His soul was delivered up to
death, and He was counted among transgressors. And He bare the
sins of many, and was delivered for their offences.”4030
Also in
Jeremiah: “Lord, give me knowledge, and I shall know
it: then I saw their meditations. I was led like a lamb
without malice to the slaughter; against me they devised a device,
saying, Come, let us cast the tree into His bread,4031
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[Tertull., iii. p. 166. Note also “the mystery
of the passion.”] | and let us erase His life from the earth,
and His name shall no more be a remembrance.”4032
Also in Exodus God said to
Moses: “Let them take to themselves each man a sheep,
through the houses of the tribes, a sheep without blemish, perfect,
male, of a year old it shall be to you. Ye shall take it from the
lambs and from the
goats, and all the congregation of the synagogue of the children of
Israel shall kill it in the evening; and they shall take of its blood,
and shall place it upon the two posts,4033
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Migne’s reading differs considerably from this, and is as
follows: “They shall take from the lambs and the goats of
its blood, and shall place it upon the two posts,” etc. | and upon the threshold in the houses,
in the very houses in which they shall eat it. And they shall eat
the flesh on the same night, roasted with fire; and they shall eat
unleavened bread with bitter herbs.4034
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Erasmus reads for “picridibus,” “lactucis
agrestibus,” wild lettuces. | Ye shall not eat of them raw nor
dressed in water, but roasted with fire; the head with the feet and the
inward parts. Ye shall leave nothing of them to the morning; and
ye shall not break a bone of it. But what of it shall be left to
the morning shall be burnt with fire. But thus ye shall eat it;
your loins girt, and your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your
hands; and ye shall eat it in haste: for it is the Lord’s
passover.”4035
Also
in the Apocalypse: “And I saw in the midst of the throne,
and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a
Lamb standing as if slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are
the seven spirits of God sent forth throughout all the earth. And
He came and took the book from the right hand of God, who sate on the
throne. And when He had taken the book, the four living creatures
and the four and twenty elders cast themselves before the Lamb, having
every one of them harps and golden cups4036
full of odours of supplications, which
are the prayers of the saints; and they sang a new song, saying, Worthy
art Thou, O Lord, to take the book, and to open its seals: for
Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us with Thy blood from every tribe,
and tongue, and people, and nation; and Thou hast made us a kingdom
unto our God, and hast made us priests, and they shall reign upon the
earth.”4037
Also in
the Gospel: “On the next day John saw Jesus coming to him,
and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, and behold Him that taketh away the
sins of the world!”4038
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