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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
The actions of the Jews were a shadow of our own. Accordingly if you ask of a Jew concerning the Passover, and the feast of unleavened bread, he will tell you nothing momentous, mentioning the deliverance from Egypt; whereas should a man inquire of me he would not hear of Egypt or Pharaoh, but of freedom from sin and the darkness of Satan, not by Moses, but by the Son of God; Chrys. Hom. 79. in Matt.) The Chief Priests set about their impious deed on the feast, as it follows, And the Chief Priests and Scribes, &c. …
Western Saints
Bede
Now the Passover, which is called in Hebrew "Phase," is not so named from the Passion, but from the passing over, because the destroying angel, seeing the blood on the doors of the Israelites, passed over them, and touched not their first-born. Or the Lord Himself, giving assistance to His people, walked over them. …
Bonaventure
The medicine of the passion is treated in two ways. Now the feast day of unleavened bread was drawing near etc. After that part which concerns the incarnation of the Word has been completed, and that which concerns his preaching and teaching, here the passion is treated, through which Christ is the sacrificial victim. This part is divided into two. …
Glossa Ordinaria
Whose Passion the Evangelist being about to relate, introduces the figure of it, saying, Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.
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