slaughter’ [BNTC]. Ὡς does not indicate that the lamb only appeared to have been slain, but that in fact it had been slain [WBC]. c. perf. pass. participle of σφάζω (LN 20.72) (BAGD p. 796): ‘to be killed’ [LN; CEV, NET, NLT, TEV], ‘to be slain’ [EC, Lns; KJV, NAB, NIV], ‘to be slaughtered’ [BAGD, BNTC, LN, WBC; NRSV, TNT], not explicit [REB]. The perfect tense indicates an action of the past the effects of which continue into the present [Lns, NIC, NIGTC, Sw, TNTC]. QUESTION—What is the significance of the