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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.”
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SHEEP OF PALESTINE.[1]
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
- ↑ The beautiful animal represented in our engraving, commonly known as the Cretan Sheep, is spread over the coasts of the Levant.
