“But Matthew, the infant Jesus and the holy family fled into Egypt for refuge, the very land that had oppressed God’s people. How can this be? And if Herod was the new pharaoh, who slaughtered the children of Bethlehem just like the pharaoh of Egypt murdered the children of Goshen, then Israel would correspond to Egypt!” “You are not the only one, Christian, to be surprised by this pattern of correspondence. None of us could have imagined that the passover lamb first slaughtered in Egypt would foreshadow