Table of Contents

The Temple: Its Ministry and Services
Alfred Edersheim

Chapter 11
The Passover

• The Passover --Difference between the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread
• Its Peculiarities
• Special Nature of the Passover --Threefold reference of the Passover to nature, history, and grace--Time of the Passover
• Origin of the Name --Meaning of the term Pesach--Difference between the so-called 'Egyptian' and the 'Permanent Passover'
• Institution of the Passover
• Directions in the Mishnah
• Scripture Records of the Feast
• Later Celebrations
• The Preparations for the Passover
• The Custom of Modern Days
• The Three Things --The first and the second Chagigah--The 'eve of the Passover'
• Special Preparations --Search for, and removal of all leaven--What constituted leaven
• Time of its Commencement --Commencement of the feast on the forenoon of the 14th Nisan--At what hour it became duty to abstain from leaven, and how it was intimated
• Choice of the Lamb --Selection of the Paschal Lamb
• Slaying of the Lamb --At what hour it was slain--Division of the offerers into three companies--Mode of sacrificing the Paschal Lamb
• The 'Hallel' --The singing of the 'Hallel'--Why it was called the Egyptian Hallel
• Completion of the Sacrifice --How the lambs were prepared after sacrifice
• Our Lord's Celebration of the Feast --The disciples preparing the Passover for the Master.