A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
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
One law shall be to him that is homeborn,.... A proper Israelite, one that is so by descent: and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you; that becomes a proselyte to the true religion; these were both bound by the same law, and obliged to observe the same rites and ceremonies, and partook of the same ordinances, benefits, and privileges; this was a dawn of...
Seven days of unleavened bread commemorates Israel's hurried departure, when they had no time to leaven their dough. The Jews searched every corner with a candle to remove leaven from their houses. One who eats leaven during those days is cut off from the community and its privileges.
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Commenting on Exodus 12:15-51