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What the Fathers say

Exodus 12:9

Eastern Fathers

Cyril of Jerusalem

Children of purity and disciples of chastity, let us celebrate the praises of the virgin-born God with lips all pure. Being counted worthy to partake of the flesh of the spiritual Lamb, let us take the head with the feet, understanding the head as the divinity and the feet as the humanity.

Catechetical Lecture 12.1 ↗

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

Where it is also added: "You shall not eat any of it raw, nor cooked in water." Behold, now the very words of the history drive us from a historical understanding. Surely, dearest brothers, that Israelite people established in Egypt had not been accustomed to eat raw lamb, that the law should say to them: "You shall not eat any of it raw"? …

Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 22 ↗