Exodus 12:8 (WEB)
They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, with unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.
Catechism · 1
“By doing so, he reveals that Jesus is at the same time the suffering Servant who silently allows himself to be led to the slaughter and who bears the sin of the multitudes, and also the Paschal Lamb, the symbol of Israel's redemption at the first Passover.” — Catechism footnote: Is 53:7, 12; cf. Jer 11:19; Ex 12:3-14; Jn 19:36; 1 Cor 5:7.
Fathers and councils · 6
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VIII.23Book VIII
“It would be too long for us at present to show why we are required by the law of God to keep its festivals by eating “the bread of affliction,” or “unleavened with bitter herbs,” or why it says, “Humble your souls,” and such like.” — editor's note: Ex. xii. 8.
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Tertullian
“…to eat this solemn sacrifice of this day (that is, of the passover of unleavened bread) with bitterness;” and added that “it was the passover of the Lord,” that is, the passion of Christ.” — editor's note: See Ex. xii. 1–11.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…also notice of the great feast of Easter, that so we may go up together, as it were, to Jerusalem, and eat the Passover, not separately but as in one house; let us not as sodden in water, water down the word of God; neither let us, as having broken its bones, destroy the commands of the Gospel.” — editor's note: Exod. xii. 8, 9, 46.
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Jerome
“Christ’s passover must be eaten with bitter herbs.” — editor's note: Ex. xii. 8.
Read the whole comment“Moreover it is with bitter herbs that the passover is eaten, and “with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”” — editor's note: Ex. xii. 8.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“But thus ye shall eat it; your loins girt, and your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hands; and ye shall eat it in haste: for it is the Lord’s passover.”” — editor's note: Ex. xii. 3–12.
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Cross-references · 16
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.23.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.23.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.23.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.