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a public festival; but so that we may also feast on a portion of the Word, being fed not on earthly things but on heavenly things, let us also eat the spiritual Passover with spiritual desire, with which the Lord Himself desired to eat with us, saying: "With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you." Come now, first let us take up and say briefly what the law is and what need there is of the law, and why the law came after Egypt; second, what is the Passover that originates from Egypt and what is the whole economy concerning the Passover and what is the whole mystery and the mystery concerning the whole Passover.

5.2 But first we shall set forth the scripture itself, so that from comparison and from juxtaposition we may see each of the concepts; And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying: This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it is the first for you among the months of the year. Speak to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, saying: On the tenth of this month let them take a sheep according to the houses of their fathers, a sheep for each house. And if there are too few in the house to be sufficient for the sheep, he shall take with them his neighbor who is near him according to the number of souls; each one shall be counted for the sheep according to what is sufficient for him. It shall be a perfect, year-old sheep for you; you shall take it from the lambs and from the kids.

And it shall be kept by you until the fourteenth of this month, and the whole multitude of the congregation of the sons of Israel shall kill it toward evening. And they shall take from the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel and in the houses in which they shall eat it. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat unleavened bread with bitter herbs. You shall not eat of it raw nor boiled in water, but roasted with fire, its head with its feet and its entrails. Nothing of it shall be left until the morning; and you shall not break a bone of it. But what is left over until morning you shall burn with fire. And thus you shall eat it: your loins girded, and your sandals on your feet, and your staffs in your hands; and you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover. And I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and I will strike every firstborn in the land of Egypt on that night, from man to beast, and on all the gods of the Egyptians I will execute vengeance; I am the Lord. And the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and I will see the blood and I will protect you, and there shall not be a plague of destruction among you when I strike in the land of Egypt. And this day shall be a memorial for you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord for your generations; you shall celebrate it as an everlasting ordinance. For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with bitter herbs. And again the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: This is the law of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it. Every servant of someone and bought with money, you shall circumcise him, and then he shall eat of it. A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat of it. It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not carry any of the flesh outside of that house. And you shall not break a bone of it. The whole congregation of Israel shall perform it. Every uncircumcised person shall not eat of it. There shall be one law for the native and for the proselyte who has come to you.

6.1 The divine scripture thus mystically proclaimed the sacred feast beforehand, but we shall now examine each of the things that have been read, with your prayers searching the hidden mysteries of the scriptures, and not doing away with the truth of what is written, but contemplating the precision of the mysteries through the types. 6.2 For indeed the divine spirit also commands Moses to make the tabernacle, "according to the pattern," it says, "which I will show you"; thus what is seen typologically is also mystically understood according to the original and firstborn pattern. 6.3

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δημοτελὴς ἑορτή· ἵνα δὲ καὶ κατὰ μέρος ἑστιαθῶμεν τοῦ λόγου, οὐ τὰ γήϊνα ἀλλὰ τὰ ἐπουράνια σιτούμενοι, φάγωμεν καὶ ἡμεῖς τὸ λογικὸν πάσχα μετὰ ἐπιθυμίας πνευματικῆς, μεθ' ἧς αὐτὸς ὁ Κύριος ἐπεθύμησε φαγεῖν μεθ' ἡμῶν εἰπών· "Ἐπιθυμίᾳ ἐπεθύμησα μεθ' ὑμῶν φαγεῖν τὸ πάσχα". Φέρε δή, πρῶτον ἀναλαβόντες διὰ βραχέων εἴπω μεν τί νόμος καὶ τί νόμου χρεία, διὰ τί δὲ μετ' Αἴγυπτον νόμος· δεύτερον τί τὸ πάσχα τὸ ἐξ Αἰγύπτου ὁρμώμενον καὶ τίς ὅλη ἡ περὶ τοῦ πάσχα οἰκονομία καὶ τί τὸ πᾶν καὶ περὶ τοῦ παντὸς τοῦ πάσχα μυστήριον.

5.2 Παραθήσομεν δὲ πρῶτον αὐτὴν τὴν γραφήν, ἵνα ἐκ παραβολῆς καὶ ἐκ

παραθέσεως ἕκαστα βλέπωμεν τῶν θεωρημάτων· Εἶπε δὲ Κύριος πρὸς Μωυσῆν καὶ Ἀαρὼν ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτου λέγων· Ὁ μὴν οὗτος ὑμῖν ἀρχὴ μηνῶν, πρῶτός ἐστιν ὑμῖν ἐν τοῖς μησὶ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ. Λάλησον πάσῃ συναγωγῇ υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ λέγων· Τῇ δεκάτῃ τοῦ μηνὸς τούτου λαβέτωσαν πρόβατον κατ' οἴκους πατριῶν, πρόβατον κατ' οἰκίαν. Ἐὰν δὲ ὀλίγοι ὦσιν ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ ὥστε μὴ ἱκανοὺς εἶναι εἰς τὸ πρόβατον, προσλήψεται μετ' αὐτῶν τὸν γείτονα τὸν πλησίον αὐτοῦ κατὰ ἀριθμὸν ψυχῶν· ἕκαστος τὸ ἀρκοῦν αὐτῷ ἀριθμηθήσεται εἰς πρόβατον. Πρόβατον τέλειον ἐνιαύσιον ἔσται ὑμῖν· ἀπὸ τῶν ἀρνῶν καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐρίφων λήψεσθε.

Καὶ ἔσται ὑμῖν διατετηρημένον ἕως τῆς τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτης τοῦ μηνὸς τούτου, καὶ σφάξουσιν αὐτὸ πᾶν τὸ πλῆθος συναγωγῆς υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ πρὸς ἑσπέραν. Καὶ λήψονται ἀπὸ τοῦ αἵματος καὶ θήσουσιν ἐπὶ τῶν δύο σταθμῶν καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν φλιὰν καὶ ἐν τοῖς οἴκοις ἐν οἷς ἂν φάγωσιν ἐν αὐτοῖς. Καὶ φάγονται τὰ κρέα ἐν αὐτῇ τῇ νυκτὶ ὀπτὰ πυρί, καὶ ἄζυμα ἐπὶ πικρίδων φάγονται. Οὐκ ἔδεσθε ἀπ' αὐτῶν ὠμὸν οὐδὲ ἡψημένον ὕδατι, ἀλλ' ὀπτὰ πυρὶ, κεφαλὴν σὺν τοῖς ποσὶ καὶ τοῖς ἐνδοσθίοις. Οὐ καταλείψεται ἀπ' αὐτῶν εἰς τὸ πρωί· καὶ ὀστοῦν οὐ συντρίψετε ἀπ' αὐτοῦ. Τὸ δὲ περι λειπόμενον ἕως πρωὶ ἐν πυρὶ κατακαύσετε. Οὕτω δὲ φάγεσθε αὐτό· αἱ ὀσφύες ὑμῶν περιεζωσμέναι, καὶ τὰ ὑποδήματα ὑμῶν ἐν τοῖς ποσὶν ὑμῶν, καὶ αἱ βακτηρίαι ὑμῶν ἐν ταῖς χερσὶν ὑμῶν· καὶ ἔδεσθε αὐτὸ μετὰ σπουδῆς. Πάσχα ἐστὶ Κυρίου. Καὶ διελεύσομαι ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτου ἐν τῇ νυκτὶ ταύτῃ καὶ πατάξω πᾶν πρωτότοκον ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτου ἐν τῇ νυκτὶ ταύτῃ ἀπὸ ἀνθρώπου ἕως κτήνους, καὶ ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς θεοῖς τῶν Αἰγυπτίων ποιήσω τὴν ἐκδίκησιν· ἐγὼ Κύριος. Καὶ ἔσται τὸ αἷμα ὑμῖν ἐν σημείῳ ἐπὶ τῶν οἰκιῶν ἐν αἷς ἐστε ἐκεῖ· καὶ ὄψομαι τὸ αἷμα καὶ σκεπάσω ὑμᾶς, καὶ οὐκ ἔσται ἐν ὑμῖν πληγὴ τοῦ ἐκτρίψαι, ὅταν παίω ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτου. Καὶ ἔσται ἡ ἡμέρα αὕτη ὑμῖν εἰς μνημόσυνον, καὶ ἑορτάσατε αὐτὴν ἑορτὴν Κυρίῳ εἰς τὰς γενεὰς ὑμῶν· νόμιμον αἰώνιον ἑορτάσατε αὐτήν. Ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας ἄζυμα ἔδεσθε ἐπὶ πικρίδων. Καὶ πάλιν εἶπεν ὁ Κύριος πρὸς Μωϋσῆν καὶ Ἀαρὼν λέγων· Οὗτος ὁ νόμος τοῦ πάσχα· πᾶς ἀλλογενὴς οὐκ ἔδεται ἀπ' αὐτοῦ. Πάντα οἰκέτην τινὸς καὶ ἀργυρώνητον περιτέμῃς αὐτὸν καὶ τότε φάγεται ἀπ' αὐτοῦ. Πάροικος καὶ μισθωτὸς οὐκ ἔδεται ἀπ' αὐτοῦ. Ἐν οἰκίᾳ μιᾷ βρωθήσεται· οὐκ ἐξοίσετε ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας ἐκείνης τῶν κρεῶν ἔξω. Καὶ ὀστοῦν οὐ συντρίψετε ἀπ' αὐτοῦ. Πᾶσα συναγωγὴ Ἰσραὴλ ποιήσει αὐτό. Πᾶς ἀπερίτμητος οὐκ ἔδεται ἀπ' αὐτοῦ. Νόμος εἷς ἔσται τῷ ἐγχωρίῳ καὶ τῷ προσελθόντι προσηλύτῳ ἐν ὑμῖν.

6.1 Ἡ μὲν θεία γραφὴ οὕτως μυστικῶς τὴν ἱερὰν ἑορτὴν προεθέσπισεν, ἡμεῖς

δὲ ἤδη καθ' ἕκαστον ἀκριβώσομεν τῶν ἀνεγνωσμένων, εὐχαῖς ὑμετέραις ἐραυνῶντες τῶν γραφῶν τὰ κεκρυμμένα μυστήρια, καὶ τὴν μὲν ἀλήθειαν τῶν γεγραμ μένων οὐκ ἀναιροῦντες, τὴν δὲ ἀκρίβειαν τῶν μυστηρίων διὰ τῶν τύπων θεωροῦντες. 6.2 Καὶ γὰρ καὶ τὴν σκηνὴν τῷ Μωϋσεῖ τὸ θεῖον πνεῦμα ἐντέλλεται ποιῆσαι "καθ' ὃ δείξω σοι, φησί, παράδειγμα"· οὕτως τυπικῶς ὁρώ μενόν ἐστι καὶ μυστικῶς τὸ κατὰ τὸ πρωτότυπον καὶ πρωτογενὲς παράδειγμα νοούμενον. 6.3