He seeth Jesus coming and saith, Behold the Lamb — Innocent; to be offered up; prophesied of by Isaiah, Isaiah 53:7, typified by the paschal lamb, and by the daily sacrifice: The Lamb of God — Whom God gave, approves, accepts of; who taketh away — Atoneth for; the sin — That is, all the sins: of the world — Of all mankind. Sin and the world are of equal extent.

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