Exodus 12:22 (WEB)
You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
Fathers and councils · 5
Jerome
“This is the house where alone the paschal lamb can be rightly eaten.” — editor's note: Ex. xii. 22.
Read the whole comment“While they were keeping their sheep they found the Lamb of God; whose fleece bright and clean was made wet with the dew of heaven when it was dry upon all the earth beside, and whose blood when sprinkled on the doorposts drove off the destroyer of Egypt and took away the sins of the world.” — editor's note: Ex. xii. 21–23.
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Ambrose of Milan
“…be purified both according to the Law and according to the Gospel: according to the Law, because Moses sprinkled the blood of the lamb with a bunch of hyssop; according to the Gospel, because Christ’s garments were white as snow, when in the Gospel He showed forth the glory of His Resurrection.” — editor's note: Ex. xii. 22.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…all aids, being signed both in body and in soul with the unction, as Israel was of old with that blood and unction of the firstborn at night that guarded him, what then can happen to you, and what has been wrought out for you?” — editor's note: Exod. xii. 22.
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Augustine of Hippo
“And that sealing—for it had a real significance—was said to keep away the destroyer from the houses that were sealed: Christ’s seal drives away the destroyer from us, if we receive the Saviour into our hearts.” — editor's note: Ex. xii. 22, 23.
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