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celebrated in their generation; this is an eternal redemption to be celebrated in the praises of glorious saints, world without end.
43 And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance
of the Passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
44 but every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast
circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
45 A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof. 46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth aught
of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
In one house shall it be eaten (Ex 12:46), for good-fellowship sake, that they might rejoice together, and edify one another in the eating of it. None of it must be carried to another place, nor left to another time; for God would not have them so taken up with care about their departure as to be indisposed to take the comfort of it, but to leave Egypt, and enter upon a wilderness, with cheerfulness, and, in token of that, to eat a good hearty meal. The papists' carrying their consecrated host from house to house is not only superstitious in itself, but contrary to this typical law of the Passover, which directed that no part of the lamb should be carried abroad.
47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. 48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the
Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
All the congregation of Israel must keep it, Ex 12:47. All that share in God's mercies should join in thankful praises for them. Though it was observed in families apart, yet it is looked upon as the act of the whole congregation; for the smaller communities constituted the greater. The New-Testament Passover, the Lord's supper, ought not to be neglected by any who are capable of celebrating it. He is unworthy the name of an Israelite that can contentedly neglect the commemoration of so great a deliverance.