[395] In a distich accompanying an Agnus Dei in the church of St. Pudentiana at Rome, both characters are ascribed to Our Lord:
Hic agnus mundum restaurat sanguine lapsum,
Mortuus et vivus idem sum, pastor et agnus.
“This Lamb restores the lost world with his blood. Dead and living, I am but one; I am at once the Shepherd and the Lamb.”
Paulinus beautifully says: “The same Lamb and Shepherd rules us in the world who from wolves has made us lambs. He is now the Shepherd of those sheep for whom he was once the victim Lamb.”—Epis. iii, ad Florent.
[396] Isa. liii, 7.
[397] John i, 19.
[398] Rev. v, 6.
[399] Ibid., v, 12.
[400] “And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the Mount Sion.”—Rev. xiv, 1.