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 strike it on the two side-posts, and on the upper door-post of the house wherein they had eaten it. (v. 7.) After eating the Passover, they were not to go out of the door of their houses until the morning. The blood on the lintel and posts was to be for a token or sign upon the houses where the Jews were, that when the Lord passed over to smite the Egyptians, and saw the blood upon the lintel and on the two posts, He would pass over the door, and not suffer the destroyer to smite them.

It is at once a truth highly consoling and instructive to every spiritually-minded man, that all the laws and ceremonies of the Jewish church are so many types and shadows of good things to come, and these good things, of which ceremonials are as shadows, are now pre-eminently seen in the true Christian Church.

Turn then, O wayfaring man! in humility, to the contemplation of this law! thou shalt not err therein, but shall see its spiritual import, and be blessed with the light of life.

The mind of man is, in Scripture, uniformly compared to and called a house. When there is a total rejection of all that is good and true, the Lord says, "Behold your house is left unto you desolate!" (Matt. xxiii. 38.) A desolate house is, spiritually, a desolate and ruined mind. As the mind in the whole, is the house, so chambers, windows, doors, lintels, and gates, are the various principles and mental powers appertaining thereto: thus secret or inner chambers are the inmost affections where man dwells as it were alone, to reflect, to pray in closets with the door shut, and to commune with his own heart; windows are emblems of his intellectual powers, by and through