The Passover feast the type of the Christian life. I. THE CHRISTIAN 'S LIFE IS AN UNCEASING FESTIVAL . 1 . It is unending, deepening joy. Other joys fade, this brightens. 2 . It is a growing appropriation of the Lamb of God. Our union with him grows ever closer, fuller. Is this our experience? A nominal Christianity will never save us. Are we feeding on Jesus? Are we in. him and be in us? II. IT IS THE KEEPING IN REMEMBRANCE OF A PAST ... read more
Seven days. There is no indication that the week of seven days was admitted by the ancient Egyptians, or even known to them. Apparently, the nation which first adopted it was that of the Babylonians. Abraham may have brought it with him from "Ur of the Chaldees;" and from him it may have passed to Jacob, and so to Moses. That the week was known in the family of Abraham before the giving of the law, appears from Genesis 29:27 , Genesis 29:28 . Unleavened bread is typical of purity of... read more
Cut off - The penalty inflicted on those who transgressed the command may be accounted for on the ground that it was an act of rebellion; but additional light is thrown upon it by the typical meaning assigned to leaven by our Lord, Matthew 16:6. read more
Exodus 12:14-20. This shall be to you for a memorial It was to be annually observed as a feast to the Lord in their generations, to which the feast of unleavened bread was annexed. A holy convocation Such solemn festivals were called convocations, because the people were then assembled by sound of trumpet to attend the rites and ordinances of divine worship. The first day was to be a holy convocation, because of the feast of the passover; and the seventh, as being that day, after their... read more
The Passover (12:1-36)Until now the Israelites had escaped the judgment of the plagues without having to do anything, but now their safety depended on their carrying out God’s commands. Redemption involves faith and obedience.Each family would be delivered from judgment only by killing a sacrificial animal as substitute for it, and sprinkling the animal’s blood on the door of the house where the family lived. The sprinkled blood indicated to those outside that a substitutionary sacrifice had... read more
leaven = fermented bread. First occurance. See App-38 . until. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch and The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, read "and until". read more
"Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day, ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel And in the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you. And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in... read more
Exodus 12:15. Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread— In consequence of this command, the Jews searched with the utmost diligence the evening before the passover, that there might not be the least leaven, or leavened bread, remaining in their houses. They were to continue in the use of unleavened bread seven days; because it is computed, that their deliverance was completed on the seventh day after their exit from Egypt, when Pharaoh and his host were drowned in the Red-sea; see ch. Exodus... read more
15. Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread, &c.—This was to commemorate another circumstance in the departure of the Israelites, who were urged to leave so hurriedly that their dough was unleavened ( :-), and they had to eat unleavened cakes ( :-). The greatest care was always taken by the Jews to free their houses from leaven—the owner searching every corner of his dwelling with a lighted candle. A figurative allusion to this is made (1 Corinthians 5:7). The exclusion of leaven for seven... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 12:14-20
Hitherto the directions given have had reference, primarily and mainly, if not wholly, to the first celebration of the Passover on the night preceding the Exodus. Now, it is announced, (a) the eating of unleavened bread for seven days after the killing of the Passover; (b) the putting away of leaven out of the houses; (c) the holding of meetings for worship on the first day and the last; and (d) the observance on these days of a sabbatical rest. read more