The sins of the whole world - yours, mine, everybody's, excluding no one - he [the Baptist] says, lie on this Lamb of God. Sins should no longer burden the world, terrify, condemn, or kill us, since they will be taken away from us and be made to lie upon the Lamb of God. That is true joy, that the beloved John brings such tidings into the world for the first time and points to Christ; he admonishes everyone to cling to Him and to expect such grace from Him. Never since the world began has there been such preaching. -- Blessed Martin Luther, Homily upon the Day of St. John the Baptist, House Postils 3:315
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