22. hyssop--a small red moss [HASSELQUIST];
the caper-plant [ROYLE]. It was used in the
sprinkling, being well adapted for such purposes, as it grows in
bushes--putting out plenty of suckers from a single root. And it is
remarkable that it was ordained in the arrangements of an all-wise
Providence that the Roman soldiers should undesignedly, on their part,
make use of this symbolical plant to Christ when, as our Passover, He
was sacrificed for us
[Joh 19:29].
none . . . shall go out at the door of his house until the
morning--This regulation was peculiar to the first celebration, and
intended, as some think, to prevent any suspicion attaching to them of
being agents in the impending destruction of the Egyptians; there is an
allusion to it
(Isa 26:20).
JFB.
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