Wild lettuces

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Often appears with: unleavened bread · spiritual versus corporal worship · sin as impediment · sacrament mapping · repentance · purifications of the old law · old law divorce · matrimony · expiation by christ · eucharist and passover · equity, mercy, and pardon · custom and unwritten law

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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

Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) primary

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint · c. 1265–1273
PART I-II ("Prima Secundae") > i.e. into imperfect men, "the bottles break, and the wine runneth out," i.e. the precepts are despised, and those men, from contempt, break into evils worse still. (81/91)

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…