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Exo_12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; [and] with bitter [herbs] they shall eat it.
Ver. 8. In that night.] By candle light. So must we feed upon Christ, lumine supernaturali. "By his knowledge doth God’s righteous servant justify many." {Isa_53:11}
Roast withfire.] Not raw: we may not grossly conceive of Christ, nor rashly receive him. Not boiled, but roast: to show that Christ was roasted in the fire of his Father’s wrath: et sicut tostis cibariis non adhibentur alia, ut in elixis fieri consuevlt: ira solum Christum debemus apprehendere fide, saith an interpreter. {a}
And unleavened bread,] {See Trapp on "1Co_5:7"} {See Trapp on "1Co_5:8"}
And with bitter herbs.] To teach that, "looking upon Christ whom they have pierced," men must be "in bitterness," {Zec_12:10} and feel what "an evil and bitter thing sin is," {Jer_2:19} being ready to suffer hardship with Christ, though he should feed us to the full with bitter herbs, and "make us drunken with wormwood." {Lam_3:15}
{a} Alsted.