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JEWISH OBSERVANCES.

I In Exod. xii.

THE PASSOVER.

Heb. xi. 28: "Through faith he

kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them."

2 Isa. liii. 7: "He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." Compare Acts viii. 32; John i. 29: “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world," and verse 36. Rev. v. 6-12: "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.

Worthy is the Lamb that was slain." See also
Rev. vii. 10, 14.

3 1 Peter i. 19: "But [ye were redeemed] with the
precious blood of Christ, as
blemish and without spot."
ii. 22: "Who did no sin,

of a lamb without See also 1 Peter neither was guile