before thegiving ofthe Law. Chet?) being only not pronounced. The Greeks retain the name, but corrupt it into nzga, and are followed by the Latine,, who callit Pafcha. Hence after the Apoflle had applied this Fea(1 and Sacrifice unto theLordChriJt, 1 Cor. 5. 7. and Chriflians begat to celebrate the commemoration of the Paflìon and SufferingofChrif, at the time of the year when that was obferved, many both of the Greeks and Latins began to think, that the 'word was derived from nd,gcm, Patior, to fuffer, as both Augujtín, and Gregory Nazianzen, Serm. de Pafch. do`declare, who bothofthem refutethat imagination. The general natuie of it was rat a Sacrifice, v. as. and in a Feafr, v. 14. A Sacrifice from the flaying and offering of the Lamb, whichwas done afterwards for the people, by the Leviers and a Feafi from the joy and remiffion of labour wherewith the.annexed. Solemnities were to be obferved. Thematter ofit was nt0Sah, v. 3. that A, ayoung Lamb or Kid, a male without blemi(h, for either might be ufd in this fervice, se. 5. The manner bfthe fervicwas, a. Inthe Preparation, the Lamb or Kid was to be ta- ken into. cu(lody on the tenthday of the month, and kept therein four days, v. 6. which, as theyews fay, was partly that they might difteria perfedly whether it had any blemiJb or no; partly thatthey might by the fight of theLamb be minded of their duty, and the mercy of their deliverance. Indeed'it was, that it might prefigure the imprifonment of the Lamb ofGod, ¡fa. 53.7, 8. who took away the fins of the world. This preparation, the Jews fay, was temporary,and obferved only at the firft In(}itu- tion of the Ordinance inEgypt,and that partly left in theirhafte they fhould not other- wife have been able toprepare their Lambs. Soalfo was the #,inkling oftee Maud on the polls of the doorsof their dwelling houfes, v. 7. withHyfp, which could not be afterwards obferved, when by God's Inffitution the whole Congregation were to celebrate it in oneplace; audit had refpeét unto their prefent deliverance from the de(troying Angel, v. 12, and 13. In like manner was their eating it, with their loins girt, theirfhooeson theirfeet, and their francs in their bands, v. a a. that they might be in a readinefs for their immediatedeparture, whichwas not afterwards obferved byour LordJefiss CbriJi; nor anyoftheChurch. Fortheft figns ceafed with the prefent oc- cafions ofthem. 7.. This Lambwas to beprovided foreach boufhold, v., 3, 4. which was the third difiributionofthat people, thefirft being into Tribes, and the fecond into Families, from the twelve Patriarchs and their immediate Sons, Joß'. 7. t6, 17, 18: But becaufe theirwas anallowance to make their company proportionable unto their provifionofaLamb, joyning orfeparating houfholds, u. 4. they ate it afterwardsin Societies or Fraternities ; as our Saviour had twelve with him atthe eating of it. And the Jewsrequire ten at leali in Societyunto this celebration.. Where the Targum ex- pretty on this place, Exod. 12.4. Ifehe menofthe houfe be fewer then the number often; for this was aTarred number with them. They Circumcifenot, Marry not, Divorce not, unlefs ten be prefent. Thence is their Paying in Pirke Aboth, where tenfit and learn the Law, the divine pre//nee refresh on them, as Pfal. 8z. I. 3. The Lamb being provided was to be tilled, and it was directed that the whole Affembly of theCongregationof Ifrad should kill it, v. 6. that is, everyone for himfelfand-family. But after the giving ofthe Law, and the ere6ìion of a Priejihood in the Church, this work, as it was a Sa- crifice, was left unto the Priefis, 2Cbron. 35. a, z,'3; 4, 5. 4. The place where it was tobekilled, was at Rill in their feveral houfes, or where-ever the Affembly of thepeople was; but this afterwards was forbidden, and the Sacrifice of the Paver confined exprefly to the place where theTabernacle andTemple were tobe, and not elfe-where, Deut. 16. 6, 7. 5. The preparation ofthe whole Lamb for eating, was by rolling it, v. 8, 9. and that was donewith breadunleavened; and bitternefo, or bitter herbs, v. 9. and it was all tobe eaten that night. What remained until the morning was to be burned in the fire, as a; thing dedicate, and not tobe polluted. The. Jews have many Traditions about the manner of eating and drinking at this Supper, of the Caps they drank andbletfed, ofthe Cakes they brake, of their Wafflings, and the like, whichasthey have all of them been difcuffed by others at large, fo I (hall not la- bour about them, as being fatisfied that theyare moll, ifnot all of them, inventionsof 1heRabbins finer the dcftru6tionof the fecond Temple, andmany of them taken up from what they obferved to be in ufe amongChriftians, or were led into by fuch- as from the prefeffion of Chriflianity apofiatized unto them , which were no (malt multitude. Unto this obfervationof the Pafföver, was adjoyned theFeat; ofVnleavened Bread, which was tobegin the next day after the eatingofthe Lamb, that is on the x5 day, of the firft month. For whereas the PafehalLamb was to be eaten with unleavened Bread,, z63 If. 17
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