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casions the heathens broke the bones, and 

 pulled them asunder with frantic enthusiasm. 

 Neither was it to be ' sodden,' as in their ma- 

 gical rites : but roasted by fire, and not by the 

 heat of the sun, which was one of the chief 

 objects of their idolatry. It was to be eaten 

 along with ' the purtenance,' that is, the intes- 

 tines, which the heathens reserved for their 

 impious divinations. Lastly, ' no fragments* 

 were suffered to remain, because the supersti- 

 tious multitude had been in the habit of pre- 

 serving them for charms ; and they were, there- 

 fore, ordered to be burned. 



" The lamb or kid was to be slain in the 

 evening; the Hebrew expression is literally 

 ' between the two evenings;' for among the 

 Jews there was an early and a later evening ; 

 the first beginning at noon, as soon as the sun 

 began to decline, and the second at sunset, 

 which at this season of the year, the vernal equi- 

 nox, took place at six o'clock. Thus the time 

 6 between the two evenings,' when the passover 

 was slain, was about three o'clock in the after- 

 noon ; and this was the very time of the day 

 when Christ, the true passover, was sacrificed on 

 the cross. 



11 What a striking analogy there is," continued 

 my uncle, " between that typical sacrifice of the 

 Paschal lamb, and the grand sacrifice of Him 



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