NOTES ON SCRIPTURE 1895 NO. 59
NOTES ON SCRIPTURE 1895 NO. 59
It is important to mark the difference between keeping the passover here and in Exodus 12. In christendom, as a rule, the Lord’s supper is looked at in the light of Exodus 12. There it is not remembrance; it is appropriation, entering into the great fact of the death of the substitute; whereas in Joshua 5 it is plainly remembrance. In type you are at the other side of death, and you recall the wondrous way by which all has been accomplished for you; but morally you are at the heavenly side of Jordan, you eat of the [p. 113] old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover. A new day is opened to you, you are in the sphere of eternal life. “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him”. (1 Corinthians 2: 9)