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Lamb bleeding into the Holy Chalice, carrying the vexillum Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, with gushing blood, detail of the Ghent Altarpiece, Jan van Eyck, c. 1432. The title Lamb of God for Jesus appears in the Gospel of John, with the initial proclamation: "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" in John 1:29, the title reaffirmed the next day in John 1:36. [1]
[1] [2] "The Lamb of God," refers to Isaiah 53:7 and Jeremiah 11:19, in which Christ is called a lamb. This was prefigured by the lamb offered up in daily sacrifices by the Jewish people for legal oblations, including the Passover. It is "of God," for it is offered up by God the Son, to the Father, "for the world." [2] [3]
[107] The Lamb of God title has found widespread use in Christian prayers and the Agnus Dei ("Lamb of God who take away the sins of the world have mercy on us; Lamb of God who take away the sins of the world grant us peace") is used both in liturgy and as a form of contemplative prayer. It references the concept of a scapegoat, where people put ...
The opening of the fifth Seal releases the cries of martyrs for the "Word/Wrath of God". [2] The sixth Seal prompts plagues, storms and other cataclysmic events. [3] [4] The seventh Seal cues seven angelic trumpeters who in turn cue the seven bowl judgments and more cataclysmic events. [5] Lamb opening the seven seals, by Julius Schnorr von ...
Two different models of the process of creation existed in ancient Israel. [15] In the "logos" (speech) model, God speaks and shapes unresisting dormant matter into effective existence and order (Psalm 33: "By the word of YHWH the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their hosts; he gathers up the waters like a mound, stores the Deep in vaults"); in the second, or "agon ...
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In Johannine "agent Christology" the submission of Jesus to crucifixion is a sacrifice made as an agent of God or servant of God, for the sake of eventual victory. [216] [217] This builds on the salvific theme of the Gospel of John which begins in John 1:29 with John the Baptist's proclamation: "The Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the ...
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