An exposition upon the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation by that reverend and eminent…

Though a Lamb.] That is to say, though innocent, meek, and patient, yet slain and slaughtered: So you read in Acts 2. 23. Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and fore-knowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain; and in Acts 7. 52. You have slain them which showed before of the coming of the just one, of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers. He was a Lamb murdered, slain, and slaughtered; He was led as a Lamb to the slaughter. Slaughter implies a violent death put upon him, partly by the justice of God, partly by the wickedness of men, and partly by the malice of Satan. By the justice of God: the word is very strong in Isa. 53. 10. It pleased the Lord to bruise him, it is translated, but it signifies properly to grind him: the same word is translated destruction in Psal. 90. 3. Thou turnest man to destruction: and so it pleased the Father thus to grind him to powder that he might have nothing of chaff; he ground him to dust with grief, and horror, anguish, and agony, and terror, and pain, Isa. 53. 6. The Lord laid upon him the iniquity of us all: and so he ground him to dust for our transgressions, I ⟨p. 169⟩mean to dissolution of soul and body. And so by the wickedness of men, he was accused, condemned, and accordingly executed. What think you of him saith Caiaphas, you have heard his blasphemies; and they answered and said, he is guilty of death, Mat. 26. 66. And Pilate himself, though he thought him to be guiltless, yet delivered him to be crucified, Mat. 27▪ 26. And the people said, We have a Law, and by our Law he ought to dye, John 19. 7. Thus was he delivered by the wickedness of men: and Pilate knew they did it of envy,