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Saviour says: "This is the New Testament (the new covenant) in My<br />

blood."<br />

6. <strong>The</strong> Passover is a type of the Supper.<br />

<strong>The</strong> New Testament strikes its roots down into the very heart of the<br />

Old Dispensation, <strong>and</strong> to underst<strong>and</strong> either we must study both together.<br />

Let us compare, in the case of the paschal lamb <strong>and</strong> paschal supper, the<br />

type <strong>and</strong> the fulfilment, <strong>and</strong> we shall see how the earlier sheds light upon<br />

the later, <strong>and</strong> how both placed in their true relation illustrate each other.<br />

<strong>The</strong> following are but a part of the points of illustration, but they may be<br />

sufficient to lead the attentive student of God's Word to search for himself.<br />

1. <strong>The</strong> passover was to be a lamb, <strong>and</strong> Christ is the true Lamb.<br />

"<strong>The</strong>y shall take to them every man a lamb," are the words of the<br />

institution of the passover; Ex. xii. 3. <strong>The</strong> key to the typical reference of the<br />

lamb is already given in the words of Isaiah (liii.) "He" (the man of<br />

sorrows) "is brought as a lamb to the slaughter." But the New Testament<br />

unfolds the typical reference in all its clearness. "Behold the Lamb of<br />

God" (John i. 29, 36); "the blood of Christ, as of a lamb;" 1 Pet. i. 12. It is<br />

by this name that Christ is revealed in the glories of the apocalyptic vision:<br />

"In the midst of the elders stood a Lamb," "the elders fell down before the<br />

Lamb:" "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain." <strong>The</strong> title "lamb" is applied<br />

to our Lord between thirty <strong>and</strong> forty times in the New Testament.<br />

2. <strong>The</strong> paschal lamb was to be typically perfect, <strong>and</strong> Christ was truly<br />

perfect. <strong>The</strong> typical characteristics of the paschal lamb it is not necessary<br />

here to dwell upon. It was to be perfect <strong>and</strong> unblemished in every respect<br />

to typify Him, who both in body <strong>and</strong> soul was spotless, "holy, harmless,<br />

undefiled, <strong>and</strong> separate from sinners." "Ye were redeemed...with the<br />

precious blood, of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish <strong>and</strong> without spot;"<br />

1 Pet. i. 12.<br />

3. <strong>The</strong> paschal lamb was to be slain as a type of redemption, <strong>and</strong><br />

Christ was to be slain for the verity of redemption. "<strong>The</strong> whole assembly<br />

shall kill it;" Ex. xii. 6. "Who killed the Lord Jesus;" 1 <strong>The</strong>s. ii. 15. "Lo, in<br />

the midst of the throne stood a Lamb as it had been slain. And they sung<br />

a new song, saying, Thou wast slain, <strong>and</strong> hast redeemed us to

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