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Rh trace the varied figures and types of the blessed Lord, once manifested as "the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world," and now the Object of our worship, "in the midst of the throne, a Lamb, as it had been slain."



The wool (Gen. xxxi. 19), the flesh (ver. 38) and the milk (Deut. xxxii. 14) seem to have been very early appreciated as valuable products of the Sheep. With us, indeed, "the milk of