39One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
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And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-89)We have here an account of the great solemnity of dedicating the altars, both that of burnt-offerings and that of incense; they had been sanctified before, when they were anointed ( Lev. 8:10 ; 11 ), but now they were handselled, as it were, by the princes, with their free-will offerings. They began the use of them with rich presents, great expressions of joy and gladness, and extraordinary respec…
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