This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.
Beginning the year with spring, when the earth renews itself, was a fitting shadow of Christ's coming. Yet here is the deeper lesson: when our heads swim with care and our hands are full of urgent business, we must not let religion slip away or excuse ourselves from devotion. The sacred rite binds us to God even in our haste.
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Commenting on Exodus 12:1-20
And thus shall ye eat it,.... After the following manner, in the habit and posture described: the Targum of Jonathan adds,"at this time, and not in ages following;''for these rites were peculiar to the passover in Egypt, and not to be observed in later times: with your loins girded; that is, with their garments girt about their loins, for the better convenience in travelling; for...
The details matter: loins girded, sandals fastened, staff in hand. The Israelites ate as travelers ready to move. The destroying angel, seeing the blood, would pass over these marked dwellings while the rest of Egypt lay under judgment. Every gesture spoke of imminent departure and divine protection.
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Commenting on Exodus 12:11-14