Theopesta
19-04-2005, 11:20 PM
1- Anthology of commentaries Electric Notes:www.onlinebible.net (http://www.onlinebible.net):
{the sheep is not marked by the strength or labour of the ox, nor by the stately step of the goat, but by uncomplaining submission to suffering. "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, but he opened not his mouth; he was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and was as a sheep dumb before her shearers, and he opened not his mouth" #Isa 53.7. It is precisely in that connection that we are told He has left us a model that we should follow in His steps. See #1Pe 2:21-23. It is as feeding on Him, and abiding in Him, that we shall be able to walk even as He walked.}
2- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary,www.onlinebible.net (http://www.onlinebible.net):
{The innocence, mildness, submission, and patience of the sheep or lamb, rendered it peculiarly sheep and lamb, rendered it peculiarly suitable for a sacrifice, and an appropriate type of the Lamb of God, #Joh 1:29. A recent traveller in Palestine witnessed the shearing of a sheep in the immediate vicinity of Gethsemane; and the silent, unresisting submission of the poor animal, thrown with its feet bound upon the earth, its sides rudely pressed by the shearer's knees, while every movement threatened to lacerate the flesh, was a touching commentary on the prophet's description of Christ, #Isa 53:7 Ac 8:32-35.}
{the sheep is not marked by the strength or labour of the ox, nor by the stately step of the goat, but by uncomplaining submission to suffering. "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, but he opened not his mouth; he was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and was as a sheep dumb before her shearers, and he opened not his mouth" #Isa 53.7. It is precisely in that connection that we are told He has left us a model that we should follow in His steps. See #1Pe 2:21-23. It is as feeding on Him, and abiding in Him, that we shall be able to walk even as He walked.}
2- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary,www.onlinebible.net (http://www.onlinebible.net):
{The innocence, mildness, submission, and patience of the sheep or lamb, rendered it peculiarly sheep and lamb, rendered it peculiarly suitable for a sacrifice, and an appropriate type of the Lamb of God, #Joh 1:29. A recent traveller in Palestine witnessed the shearing of a sheep in the immediate vicinity of Gethsemane; and the silent, unresisting submission of the poor animal, thrown with its feet bound upon the earth, its sides rudely pressed by the shearer's knees, while every movement threatened to lacerate the flesh, was a touching commentary on the prophet's description of Christ, #Isa 53:7 Ac 8:32-35.}