UNCLE IN ENGLAND. 7 



abrupt deliverance from Egypt, was to be eaten 

 by the Israelites in the dress and posture of tra- 

 vellers, as if ready for immediate departure." 



My uncle gave us an amusing instance of the 

 punctilious regard that the Jews pay to the 

 letter of the law ; which not only prohibits their 

 eating leavened bread, but their having it at all 

 in the house. In Exodus xiii. 7, it is written, 

 " Neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in 

 all thy quarters." On the eve of the passover, the 

 master of the family, attended by all his children 

 and servants, formally search every corner of the 

 house with candles in their hands ; but why 

 with candles? because in the prophet Zepha- 

 niah i., 12, it is written, " I will search Jerusalem 

 with candles." 



" This feast," continued my uncle, " was 

 called the Passover, because the destroying angel 

 of God passed over the Israelites without smit- 

 ing them ; and to pass over is a literal translation 

 of the Hebrew word pesach. From whence also 

 we have the expression of the Paschal Lamb. 



" The deliverance from Egyptian bondage was 

 a specific type of our subsequent deliverance 

 from the yoke of sin, which we commemorate 

 in the sacrament of the Lord's supper ; and it 

 is remarkable, that both the Jewish and the 

 Christian rite were enjoined as memorials of 

 events which had not yet happened. To all 

 mankind the privileges of this great second 



