The lion excels in strength and in the majesty of his appearance and voice. The lamb excels in meekness and patience . . . is [sacrificed] for food . . . and . . . clothing. But we see that Christ is in the text compared to both, because the diverse excellencies of both wonderfully meet in him. . . . There is in Jesus Christ . . . a conjunction of such really diverse excellencies as otherwise would have seemed to us utterly incompatible in the same subject. . . .55
