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Christ the Lamb of God

Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world

Christ the Lamb of God presents Jesus as the sacrificial Lamb whose death takes away the sin of the world. In John's Gospel, John the Baptist points to him with these words, and the image recurs in Revelation and First Peter. The title draws on the sacrificial worship of Israel, casting Christ's self-offering as the true sacrifice. It is honored across Christian traditions and woven deeply into liturgy and hymnody.

How it traveled

  1. Hebrews
    Rome · 67
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  2. 1 Corinthians
    Ephesus · 67
    explains
  3. Mark
    Rome · 68
    applies
  4. Matthew
    Antioch · 80
    explains
  5. Luke
    Rome · 84
    applies
  6. Acts
    Rome · 84
    explains
  7. Revelation
    Patmos · 100
    explains
  8. John
    Ephesus · 100
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  9. 1 John
    Ephesus · 100
    explains
  10. Dialogue with Trypho
    Rome · 165
    explains
  11. The First Apology
    Rome · 165
    explains
  12. Melito, the Philosopher.
    — · 220
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  13. An Answer to the Jews.
    — · 220
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  14. The Epistle of Barnabas
    Alexandria · 220
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  15. The Gospel of Nicodemus; Part II.--Christ's Descent into Hell:  Latin. First Version.
    — · 220
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  16. Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John
    — · 303
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  17. The Church History of Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
    applies
  18. Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles of His Life
    Alexandria · 373
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  19. Ephraim Syrus: Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh
    Edessa · 373
    explains
  20. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
    explains
  21. Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
    explains
  22. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  23. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  24. Homilies on First Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  25. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  26. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  27. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  28. A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  29. Reply to Faustus the Manichæan
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  30. The Harmony of the Gospels
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  31. The Enchiridion
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  32. The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great
    Rome · 461
    explains
  33. Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)
    Paris · 1274
    explains
  34. Commentary on Galatians
    Wittenberg · 1546
    explains
  35. Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel
    Geneva · 1564
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  36. Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church
    Geneva · 1564
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  37. A History of the Work of Redemption
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  38. XIV Five discourses on the soul's eternal salvation
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  39. Seventeen Occasional Sermons
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  40. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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