did not appear in this feast; but it had played a most important part in the deliverance which this feast commemorated. Sprinkled upon the lintels and door-posts, the blood had secured the people from the stroke of the angel of death. In the ceremony of slaying the lamb in the temple, the sprinkling was made upon the horns of the altar, which took the place of the doors of the Israelitish houses.—The flesh here corresponds with the body of the lamb, which was the essential element of the Paschal
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