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Show I06 of their P a.lfover ~ L I B. I I 1. eat, it ·is in refpefr that the dough of oUr Fathers had not time to be leavened, when the Lord appeared unto them and redeemed them out of the hand of the enemy: This kind of Ctttechiji,;g they fay, is commanded, Exod. 12. l 6. They called it il,l:-t Haggada, (i) Annunci ati o, the dec lar at ion or Jhewin$ forth oft he p,if.fover. Hence the Apoftle borrow~th tht~ phrafe ;'t~ often .u 1e fball eat thU bread,aml drmk._thu cup,yefbali declare, or fhew forth, the Lord's death, I Cor, I I .2 6. Concerning this Lamb they are charged thus : Vpon the tenth of Abib every on.e {hall ta~e a Lamb foJ' l an h01/e ,z male o.f.' the jirfl 1ear1 without blemifb, and (lo I1a•{cerplb.t . de be • 'I ' . 'J h d if h t: h 7 .c •• t7· tbn he l{.ept untzl the fourteent. ay o ~ e ;ame mont , g if<braiu 1J. Exod. 12. '.&c. The Lamb, It was eaher of sheep or f-' ... 1~~ • · Goats. For an hou'e, the whole body of the Ifrae· Fr utm anrtt. • • ~.. 'b h ~ 'b · sunr tpai di· lites was dtvtded tnto tweh:e Trt es, t e J.rt es u~to fti~~lfunt in~er F amtlies the F amities into Houfes : if the Houfe were FFitllituamm a,nnnnit & too fe\V ' for the eatt· ng o f t he' _Lam b, t h~ n t he next fui,filium anni Neighbour joyned with them 10 the eatmg thereof. iAr:rprerantHr, l""he whole Company was termed 4'est1ftd., in the fame qwr Annxm K• d · " l. h 11 11m a 1 ie, tttc fenfe S. Marl{ ufeth cru!J-'lr6,tt., an "'eJ."'tJJ. , ./ltlar'\ t e ,.;nor~~tc ma- ftxth. All thefe words Hgnifie a fociety, or r.ompany j're Ftltum 'IJ~- ,a. , r; th , r: • t bl · the 1 tter 10 anni[wi,qwi ofgue;.,s,_(omany_tU~anl"tat e~amt; a e. a tjfin annD -,,;. word properly figntfieth, a bedtn a Garden; and thus -::;,~;:~:j,';'. iil the Gl!fPel, the whole multitude fitting on th_e_ .,.rit. Sed A6en gfafs, feem to be compare~ unto a Garden; and the_u EJra negat feveral focietieJ or compant.eJ, unto fo ·many bedJ tn 11b[qwe €abala J~ h b f · · h" pofft fciri q~i~ the Garden. T e num er o CommUn1c.a,n.ts In t ts Jir.~liwJ '""~ P-11jchal fociety (f) was flever lefs than ten~ nor more f1H,nffa~fit~t than twenty' . It follo\veth in the Text, A male, pot I , tnqwrr, . • f 11t fir Vaw to note the mafcultne and peer lets vertue o ourS a- ~tddiritium • viour whom it did typically {hew forth. (g) Of Jive p11ratogt• ' h. L h r. h . t t h Tl at cNm, quAlt in thejirfl 1ear; w tcn p ra1e t ey. 1n erpre t us, 1 n''" . . the lamb after it was eight da1es old and forward, , & fimtltbul. ' · 'w as ' LIB, I I I. Of their Pajfover.' was allowable to be offered for . the Pajfover, but not before; uecaufe it is faid; when a bulloci{'J or a Jheep, or a goat is brought forth, then it UJall befeven daies un· der the dam, ~tndfrom the eighth day, and thencPforth, it Jball be accepted for an offering made by. fire unt~ the 107 LBrd, Levit. 2 2. 2 7. And the reafon of thts Law, .!orne of the Hebrtws have thought to bt!, (h) becaufe in h"Viti. M1m}lcr their Opinion nothing in the world was abfolutely 411 L•~it,22• perfefr, until a sabbath had pan: over jt. Moreover if it were an hour elder then a year, it was unlawful, becaufe it is faid, A male of the jirft year, without hlemifh, as well to ad roGnilli the Jfraelites of their own perfonal integrity~ as to fignifie the abfolute perfe ... cl:ion of him who was in truth the LambofGorl. And this he kept tili the fourteenth daJ of the fame month. 1 he Rabbine.r(i) a~rm four caufes of this: Fh:ft, becaufe otherwife through the multitude of butineffes, at the time of their departure, they might forget the Pafchal Lamb. Secondly, that in this four da\es fpace , they might have the_ more certain knowledge of the Lamb's· perfelbon. rhirdly , that by beholding the Lamb fo long before their eyes~ they might have the better occafion, in that fpace, both to recount \Vith themfelves Go.d .r·mercy in their deHverance from .!Egypt , and alfo to in-H: rult and Catechife their children in that point: for which refpetl: it was a received Tradition a= mongft the JewJ, that during the fpace of tbefe four daies , their Lamb was tyed to their bed-poHs. Laflly, that in this time of preparation, they might throughly fit and addrefs, themfelves for the Ob .. lation. · The time when the Pafchal Lamb was to be flain, was at the Evening, Exod, 1 z. 6.. Or, as the Original P 2 reads i Rojp;, ia11~ at or;~ .Jef1.cap s. |
