Exodus 12:9 (WEB)
Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
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 · 4
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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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Deemed worthy to partake of the flesh of the Spiritual Lamb, let us take the head together with the feet, the Deity being understood as the head, and the Manhood taken as the feet.” — editor's note: Ex. xii. 9: the head with the feet. The same figurative interpretation is given by Eusebius (Eccl. Hist. I. ii. § 1): “In Christ there is a twofold nature; and…
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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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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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