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 which he takes a view of all things within and without; doors and gates are types of external knowledge serving as introductory mediums to more perfect perceptions of truth and wisdom; and the lintel, which is the top cross-beam that unites the two side-posts of the door together to keep them firm in their proper place, is that principle of goodness in the natural mind which keeps the truths united to holiness, firm and upright in their purpose, as the lintel keeps the posts. The blood of the paschal lamb is a type of the pure and living Truth which is in the Lord and proceeds from him; and hence Jesus, when He instituted the Holy Supper in lieu of the Passover, calls the wine, or blood of the grape, His blood, and the bread His flesh. To drink and eat these, is to receive in our hearts and lives His wisdom and love, to be applied to the spiritual nourishment of the soul. Unless Divine good and truth are received by man, he can have no spiritual life! this is taught by "except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in you." (John vi. 53.) It is by Divine Truth that we are delivered from sin and its defiling ravages; and thus, in Scriptural language, we are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. When, then, the blood is seen upon the lintel and the two door posts, we are instructed that the pure truth of God has been inwardly received—the Passover has been eaten, and the effects thrown forth in the external life. No destruction can come upon the house or mind of this man! he is safe from harm! the Lord passes over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to enter. The Lord, speaking of the commandments, says, "Thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thine house, and upon thy