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The Lamb of God: Expositions in the Writings of St. John is unavailable, but you can change that!

Examine John’s distinct use of the image of a lamb across his gospel and in Revelation. W. Robertson Nicoll’s text is full of warm pastoral insight into the significance of the sacrifice of a spotless savior. These studies cover the nature of Jesus’ sinlessness, his bearing of sin, and his reign, as well as Jesus as a warrior, a bridegroom, and judge.

ascribed to our own desert, and this is one great reason why the state of heaven is represented as a state of praise. The praise is the utterance of the gratitude of full hearts, which praise because only praise can speak their feelings, and do not cease praising because they never cease receiving, and because all that they can express of thankfulness leaves a great deep unuttered. Why do they sing? It is because speech is too weak to tell what they feel. Words are the feeblest language of the soul.
Pages 92–93