Quote #207795
To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.
William Tyndale
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Interpretation
Tyndale is reading the Old Testament sacrificial system typologically: the requirement that a Passover lamb or sacrificial kid be “without spot or blemish” is treated as a prophetic figure of Christ’s sinlessness. The point is not merely moral purity but legal and covenantal fitness—Christ alone, “in the sight of God and of his law,” fulfills what the ritual symbolized. This reflects Reformation-era emphasis on Scripture interpreting Scripture and on Christ as the sole sufficient, unblemished sacrifice, contrasting with reliance on human merit or ecclesiastical mediation. The language also shows Tyndale’s didactic aim: to train readers to “consider and mark” biblical correspondences that reveal Christ throughout the Hebrew Bible.




