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1108.

[This figurative custom]

He released unto them one prisoner. —xv. 6.

This figurative custom
Doth to our faith discover.

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A world released
At that great feast
When justice pass'd us over;
When Jesus to His Father
Became a pure Oblation,
That Lamb of God
Whose sprinkled blood
Ascertains our salvation.