The Passover by Subject
The Passover is the first in our series of JND on Selected Subjects
- The Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the Old Testament – in the Wilderness, under Josiah and Hezekiah
- The Passover in the New Testament – ‘Christ our Passover’
- Original Passover – God’s Commandments
- The Historical Keeping of the Passover
- The Feast of Unleavened Bread (This Page)
- The Firstborn Shall be Mine
- The Timing of the Passover at the End of the Lord’s Pathway
- The Last Supper
- Christ our Passover
Notes from Darby’s Writings |
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| It was clearly established, in commemoration of God’s sparing the people when judging Egypt and Pharaoh at the time of their deliverance from the bondage they were in. In the Passover, the unleavened bread, type of holiness and the absence of sin, is the bread of affliction (the spirit of repentance); and they were to turn to Him in the morning and go to their tents, though the feast lasted seven days. But the great idea of security from God’s judgment was there in the blood of the Paschal Lamb. We now have, of course, only a memorial of it.
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JND Collected Writings Volume 29 (Doctrinal 8) p107 on ‘Have we a Revelation from God?’
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| We have the unleavened bread, and the first-born consecrated, as the consequence and result of deliverance from Egypt, i.e., separation (consecration) to God in the double sense of purity, unfeigned hearts, and complete devotedness. These are the fruit of having to say to God in the way of divine power in deliverance.
Note too, the connection of unleavened bread and consecration of first-born on common ground here; both as a memorial in the land — the double character of the moral result looked for (produced by grace) in those delivered.
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Notes & Comments vol. 1 p 210
EXODUS CHAPTER 13
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| Another thing connected with the Passover is in Deuteronomy 16:7: “And thou shalt cook and eat it at the place which Jehovah thy God will choose; and in the morning shalt thou turn and go unto thy tents“. No communion, no joy, no fellowship — not a bit. Unleavened bread is the bread of affliction. They were saved, but that is all: they were still a people in bondage and slavery. Now God was going by as Judge; but because the Passover-blood the blood was on the doorposts, God would pass over them. How can I escape judgment, for God must have holiness, and I have none? Well, there is the blood. God is passing over – here we can say He is cut out of those dwellings (as a Judge) As He does not come near me, I have to eat the unleavened bread – the bread of affliction. | Notes & Jottings p 161
LECTURE AT ROCHDALE
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