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"Your lamb shall be without blemish" (Exod. 12: 5).
The Levitical law is most particular, descending to minute details, that the holiness
and perfection of the great Antitype should be ever before the mind:
"Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed . . . . . bruised,
or crushed, or broken, or cut" (Lev. 22: 22-24),
were all rejected. The Lamb was taken on the tenth day of the month and kept until the
fourteenth, so that it could be carefully inspected. Luke 23: contains a parallel
examination of the Lamb of God:
Pilate
"I find no fault in this man."
Herod
"Nothing worthy of death is done unto Him."
Malefactor
"This man hath done nothing amiss."
Centurion
"This was a righteous man."
Matt. 27: adds further evidence:
Judas
"I have betrayed innocent blood."
Pilate's Wife
"That just man."
The blood . . . . . a token.
Where the A.V. reads "The Lord set a mark (token) upon Cain" (Gen. 4: 15) it should
read "for Cain", as it was for his protection. The bow in the cloud is called the token of
the covenant (Gen. 9: 12). This word oth is translated `sign' many times in Exodus
when speaking of the plagues, as in Exod. 7: 3. Moses also used miraculous powers as
a sign or token that he had been sent by God (Exod. 4: 8). "The blood" sprinkled on the
door post "signified" that life had been taken or laid down, and that in sacrifice.
"The soul (nephesh) of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the
altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement
BY REASON OF THE SOUL (or life)" (Lev. 17: 11, see R.V.).
"I will pass over you."
As the words stand, the impression that the Lord `passed over' the houses and went on
to the houses of the Egyptians. In verse 23 however this idea does not seem fully to fit
the statement there made:
"The Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto
your houses to smite you."
Here the "passing over" is synonymous with "protecting" and when we read in
I Kings 18: 21 "How long halt ye between two opinions"? Or in Isa. 31: 5:
"As birds flying, so will the Lord of Hosts DEFEND Jerusalem: defending also He
will deliver it; and passing over He will preserve it",