Lamb and blood

Meaning

The Lamb’s blood is the means of overcoming at the general resurrection in the main treatise’s final theological development. The passage distinguishes baptismal rebirth as a beginning from the wholly perfected new birth of eternal life, when body, soul and spirit are reunited in an enduring union. The Lamb thus names Christ in a scriptural saving role, not a source of animal blood for the work. The English preserves the temporal “then finally,” which prevents the future consummation from being collapsed into an already complete bodily immortality. The surrounding union-language is expressly analogical to the earthly work but makes a theological claim about Christ’s power.