The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 12:43-51

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The Law of the Passover.

I. WHAT GOD REQUIRES IN ITS OBSERVANCE.

1. God demands purity of communion. No stranger is to cat of it.

2. It is not to be carried out from the midst of the household of faith. The peace and fellowship of the Gospel are only for the circumcised in heart.

3. Communion with Christ to be characterised by reverence and holy awe: not a bone of him is to be broken.

4. Every wall of partition is removed. All who believe have a right to join in the feast (Exodus 12:41-49); but they must come with the mark of God's people,—a circumcised heart.

II. THE OBEDIENCE OF FAITH IS BLESSED NOT ONLY WITH SAFETY BUT ALSO WITH DELIVERANCE. "Thus did all the children of Israel … and on the self-same day" they passed out of Egypt (Exodus 12:50, Exodus 12:51). Fellowship with Christ is deliverance from the bondage of evil.—U.

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