And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.
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.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 12:1-20
Nothing of it may remain until morning; the whole lamb, like Christ Himself in both His natures and offices, must be received entirely by faith. What cannot be eaten, bones, sinews, the unconsumed flesh, must be burned, lest it rot or be put to common or superstitious use, and to spare Israel the burden in their journey.
AI summary
let nothing of it remain until the morning--which might be applied in a superstitious manner, or allowed to putrefy, which in a hot climate would speedily have ensued; and which was not becoming in what had been offered to God.