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7:17; 14:4, the Head of his spiritual bride, e.g., 21:9, the luminary of the heavenly and
eternal city, 21:23, the One to whom all judgment is committed, e.g., 6:1, 16; 13:8, the
Conqueror of the foes of God and His people, 17:14; the song that celebrates the triumph
of those who “gain the victory over the Beast,” is the song of Moses … and the song of
the Lamb 15:3. His sacrifice, the efficacy of which avails for those who accept the
salvation thereby provided, forms the ground of the execution of divine wrath for the
rejector, and the defier of God, 14:10; (c) in the description of the second “Beast,” Rev.
13:11, seen in the vision “like a lamb,” suggestive of his acting in the capacity of a false
messiah, a travesty of the true. For the use in the Sept. see
Note
under No. 3.
3.
(
, 286), “a lamb,” is used figuratively of Christ, in John 1:29, 36, with
the article, pointing Him out as the expected One, the One to be well known as the
personal fulfillment and embodiment of all that had been indicated in the OT, the One by
whose sacrifice deliverance from divine judgment was to be obtained; in Acts 8:32 (from
the Sept. of Is. 53:7) and 1 Pet. 1:19, the absence of the article stresses the nature and
character of His sacrifice as set forth in the symbolism. The reference in each case is to
the lamb of God’s providing, Gen. 22:8, and the Paschal lamb of God’s appointment for
sacrifice in Israel, e.g., Ex. 12:5, 14, 27 (cf. 1 Cor. 5:7).¶
Note:
The contrast between
and
does not lie in the diminutive
character of the former as compared with the latter. As has been pointed out under No. 2,
lost its diminutive force. The contrast lies in the manner in which Christ is
presented in the two respects. The use of
points directly to the fact, the nature and
character of His sacrifice;
(only in the Apocalypse) presents Him, on the ground,
indeed, of His sacrifice, but in His acquired majesty, dignity, honor, authority and power.
In the Sept.
is used in Ps. 114:4, 6, in Jer. 11:19, with the adjective
,
“innocent”; in Jer. 27:45, “lambs.” There is nothing in these passages to suggest a
contrast between a “lamb” in the general sense of the term and the diminutive; the
contrast is between “lambs” and sheep. Elsewhere in the Sept.
is in general used
some 100 times in connection with “lambs” for sacrifice.
For
LAME
see
HALT
For
LAMENT and LAMENTATION
see
BEWAIL
LAMP
1.
(
1
, 2985) denotes “a torch” (akin to
, “to shine”), frequently
fed, like a “lamp,” with oil from a little vessel used for the purpose (the
of Matt.
25:4); they held little oil and would frequently need replenishing. Rutherford (
: (
8
$
) points out that it became used as the equivalent of
$
(No. 2), as in the
parable of the ten virgins, Matt. 25:1, 3, 4, 7, 8; John 18:3, “torches”; Acts 20:8, “lights”;
Rev. 4:5; 8:10 (
RV
, “torch,”
KJV
, “lamp”). See
Note
below.¶ Cf.
, “a torch,” John
18:3 (translated “lanterns”).¶
2.
$
(
"
, 3088) frequently mistranslated “candle,” is a portable “lamp”
usually set on a stand (see
LAMPSTAND
); the word is used literally, Matt. 5:15; Mark 4:21;