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The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
What does lamb mean in the Bible?
The lamb is the Bible's main animal of sacrifice. Its blood on the doorposts spares Israel at the first Passover (Exodus 12:21-23), and John the Baptist calls Jesus the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29).
Where lamb appears in the Bible
1 Chronicles 29:21
They sacrificed sacrifices to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the next day after that day, even one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, and one thousand lambs, with their drink offerings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel,
1 Peter 1:19
but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ,
1 Samuel 7:9
Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to Yahweh. Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; and Yahweh answered him.
Lamb through 2 lenses
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Christian Psychology · John 1:29
Christian Psychology
Sin looks like a fact carved into the world, a stain spread across everyone and needing endless payment. But a mind that has awakened sees it differently: not a thing to be punished but a mistake to be undone, a figure in a dream that dissolves the instant it is truly looked at without fear.
What takes away the sin of the world is not a sacrifice that pays a terrible price. It is the gentleness that refuses to see the world as guilty at all, and by that refusal frees it. A mind that meets attack with innocence instead of judgment carries away the very thing it declined to make real.
- The Lamb of God: the part of the mind so free of guilt that it can look on the world's error and see only innocence, and by seeing it, undo it.
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Esoteric · John 1:29
Esoteric
The Lamb is the innocent higher self, the gentle Christ nature that rises in a person once the season of purifying is done. John is the preparing mind, the awareness that cleanses with water and then gives way when the higher power appears. To take away the sin of the world is to lift the error of the whole lower nature, sin being the missing of the mark, attention scattered into the flesh. When the Lamb comes forward within, the wandering desire is gathered and the fault of the outer life is absorbed. The gentle awakened self dissolves the wrongness that struggle could never reach, simply by being present.
- Lamb of God: the innocent higher self, the gentle Christ nature rising within after purification
- John: the preparing mind that cleanses with water and yields when the higher power appears
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What lamb means in each story
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- Psychoanalysis'God will provide the lamb': Abraham's answer is both evasion and prophecy. Trusting the Self to provide what the ego cannot.Genesis 22:1-10
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