And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
The passover is God's sacred bond with His elect people, and to admit strangers to it would profane what belongs to them alone. A sacrament testifies to God's special favor toward His Church, it must never be prostituted to all comers, but guarded as circumcision guarded the holy race from the heathen nations.
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The whole congregation must keep it together, for all who share God's mercies owe Him thankful praise. Only the circumcised may sit at this table, just as none now approach the Lord's supper without baptism first; we must be born again by the word before we can be nourished by it.
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Commenting on Exodus 12:43-51
A foreigner and a hired servant have no right to eat the passover unless they become proselytes of righteousness through circumcision. One lamb must be eaten whole in a single house, it cannot be divided between houses, signifying that Christ is not to be divided from His ministers, word, and ordinances.
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