[Sleeping in EQ]

Originally Posted by creekster

That's why I wrote perhaps. It is sort of my fancy about it, not anything that I know or would assert fully.



I was actually arguing for a much more limited meaning to the phrase "like a lamb to the slaughter." He had apparnetly destroyed the press. He was not innocent in the way Jesus was, and it was (going back to your orignial quesiton) a martyrdom, not an atonement. I htink the "lamb to a slaughter" phrase may only really describe his demeanor upon his deciison to mount up and ride to Carthage, as opposed to the greater signifiacnce sometimes ascribed to it.

We are in total agreement on this.