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Often appears with: sacrifice and ritual · custom and unwritten law · wild lettuces · the nature and attributes of God · spiritual versus corporal worship · sin as impediment · sacrament mapping · repentance · purifications of the old law · pentecost counting · passover instructions · passover
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“Let us feast . . . with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) · precept
“For I will go about in the land of Egypt this same night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast, and upon all the gods of Egypt will I the LORD do execution.” William Tyndale, The first New Testament printed in English · observation
The LORD institutes Passover for Israel: slaughtering a spotless male lamb, marking doorposts with blood, eating roasted meat with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, and observing it as an everlasting holy custom.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying: This month shall be your chief month: even the first month of the year shall it be unto you. Speak ye unto all the fellowship of Israel saying: that they take the tenth day of this month to every household, a sheep. If the household be too few for a sheep, then let him and his neighbour that is next unto this house, take according to the number of s…
God sets out Israel’s appointed feasts: Passover and the feast of unleavened bread, weekly counting to Pentecost, and first-fruits offerings, with precise days, sacrifices, and food restrictions.
And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: These are the feasts of the LORD which ye shall call holy feasts. Six days ye shall work, and the seventh is the Sabbath of rest an holy feast: so that ye may do no work therein, for it is the Sabbath of the LORD, wheresoever ye dwell. These are the feasts of the LORD which ye shall proclaim holy in their seasons. The fourteen…
Aquinas explains that Old Law purifications removed impediments to worship—spiritual via cleansing from sins and corporal via sacrifices—insisting that these rites signified expiation later fulfilled by Christ.
eaten, neither shall you carry forth of the flesh thereof out of the house": because, to wit, on account of their haste, they could not send any gifts of it. The stress they suffered while in Egypt was denoted by the wild lettuces. The figurative reason is evident, because the sacrifice of the paschal lamb signified the sacrifice of Christ according to 1 Cor. 5:7: "Christ our pasch is sacrificed." The blood of the l…