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Thus shall ye eat it, to wit, for this time, because their circumstances required it, that they being suddenly to take a great journey, might be in a traveller’s habit. But that these, and some other circumstances now enjoined and used, were only temporary, and not perpetual nor obligatory, sufficiently appears from the practice not only of the Jews in following ages, but also of Christ and of his apostles. And in like manner there are some institutions in the New Testament which did only oblige that age, and not all that follow them, as Act_15:28,29.
With your loins girded, like travellers and persons undertaking some difficult service; for such used to gird up their garments, which in those parts were long and troublesome. See 2Ki_4:29 9:1 Luk_12:35.
Shoes on your feet; a badge,
1. Of their readiness for their journey, Isa_5:27 Act_12:8.
2. Of their freedom; for slaves, such as the Israelites now were in Egypt, used to go barefooted.
3. Of joy, as on the contrary going barefoot was a badge of mourning, 2Sa_15:30. Your staff in your hand, like persons upon the point of departing, which was a very comfortable circumstance.
In haste; for so the word signifies, Deu_16:3 Isa_52:12. It is the Lord’s passover: this lamb, or your eating of it, is the Lord’s passover, i.e. it is a sign of God’s passing over you and your houses, when he comes to destroy the Egyptians on every side of you, Exo_12:13,23. It is a metonomy usual in sacramental speeches, as Gen_17:10 Mat_26:26-28.