Exodus 12:1
The Lord spake — Had spoken, before the three days darkness. But the mention of it was put off to this place, that the history of the plagues might not be interrupted.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Lord spake — Had spoken, before the three days darkness. But the mention of it was put off to this place, that the history of the plagues might not be interrupted.... [ Continue Reading ]
This shall be to you the beginning of months — They had hitherto begun their year from the middle of September, but hence — forward they were to begin it from the middle of March, at least in all their ecclesiastical computations. We may suppose that while Moses was bringing the ten plagues upon the... [ Continue Reading ]
Take every man a lamb — In each of their families, or two or three families, if they were small, join for a lamb. The lamb was to be got ready four days before. and that afternoon they went, they were to kill it, (Exodus 12:6,) as a sacrifice, not strictly, for it was not offered upon the altar, but... [ Continue Reading ]
Raw — Half roasted, but throughly drest.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye shall burn with fire — To prevent the profane abuse of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Lord's passover — A sign of his passing over you, when he destroyed the Egyptians.... [ Continue Reading ]
An holy convocation — A solemn day for the people to assemble together.... [ Continue Reading ]
A stranger — A proselyte. Heathens were not concerned in the passover.... [ Continue Reading ]
Out of the door of his house — Of that house, wherein he ate the passover: Until the morning — That is, till towards morning, when they would be called for to march out of Egypt. They went out very early in the morning.... [ Continue Reading ]
The destroyer — The destroying angel, whether this was a good or an evil angel, we have not light to determine.... [ Continue Reading ]
The people bowed the head and worshipped — They hereby signified their submission to this institution as a law, and their thankfulness for it as a favour and privilege.... [ Continue Reading ]
Rise up, and get you forth — Pharaoh had told Moses he should see his face no more, but now he sent for him; those will seek God in their distress, who before had set him at defiance. Such a fright he was now in that he gave orders by night for their discharge, fearing lest if he delay'd, he himself... [ Continue Reading ]
Bless me also — Let me have your prayers, that I may not be plagued for what is past when you are gone.... [ Continue Reading ]
We be all dead men — When death comes unto our houses, it is seasonable for us to think of our own mortality.... [ Continue Reading ]
Their kneading — troughs — Or rather, their lumps of paste unleavened.... [ Continue Reading ]
About six hundred thousand men — The word means strong and able men fit for wars, beside women and children, which we cannot suppose to make less than twelve hundred thousand more. What a vast increase was this to arise from seventy souls, in little more than two hundred years.... [ Continue Reading ]
And a mixed multitude went up with them — Some perhaps willing to leave their country, because it was laid waste by the plagues. But probably the greatest part was but a rude unthinking mob, that followed they knew not why: It is likely, when they understood that the children of Israel were to conti... [ Continue Reading ]
Thrust out — By importunate entreaties.... [ Continue Reading ]
It was just four hundred and thirty years from the promise made to Abraham (as the Apostle explains it, Galatians 3:17,) at his first coming into Canaan, during all which time the Hebrews, were sojourners in a land that was not theirs, either Canaan or Egypt. So long the promise God made to Abraham... [ Continue Reading ]
This first passover night was a night of the Lord, much to be observed; but the last passover night, in which Christ was betrayed, was a night of the Lord, much more to be observed, when a yoke heavier than that of Egypt was broke from off our necks, and a land better than that of Canaan set before... [ Continue Reading ]
An hired servant — Unless he submit to be circumcised.... [ Continue Reading ]
All the congregation of Israel must keep it — Though it was observed in families apart, yet it is looked upon as the act of the whole congregation. And so the new testament passover, the Lord's supper, ought not to be neglected by any that are capable of celebrating it.... [ Continue Reading ]
No stranger that was uncircumcised might eat of it. Neither may any now approach the Lord's supper who have not first submitted to baptism; nor shall any partake of the benefit of Christ's sacrifice, who are not first circumcised in heart. Any stranger that was circumcised might eat of the passover,... [ Continue Reading ]