1 The most standard of these is the iamb.

2 Abel carried into the presence of God the Iamb which was to die in his place.

3 The iamb is a simple pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.

4 Just as a Iamb does not fight back so he quietly faced death without any cry or complaint. He said he was laying down his life.

5 The people had become aware of their sin. Here John told them, "Here's the Iamb of God who can take away your sin."

6 The same truth is foreshadowed in so many ways in the Old Testament - Abraham's Iamb which replaced Isaac on Mt.

7 In some ways John's statement was an answer to a question asked 2000 years previously. Isaac questioned his father, Where is the Iamb for the sacrifice?