LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE PASCHAL LAMB.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR, —Allow me to call the attention of your correspondent "C. B. J." to the following considerations : 1st. That the bread and wine used in the Paschal feast could not be significant of the flesh and blood of the Paschal Lamb, since the lamb was itself present, and eaten at the feast.
2nd. That each successive lamb thus eaten was as truly a Passover lamb as was the original lamb according to the account in Exodus ; for the Passover did not consist in the sacrifice of the lamb, but in. the deliverance of the firstborn consequent upon it.
The recurring Paschal sacrifices commemorated a past event, but each commemoration was a present sacrifical act, not merely the
remembrance of a past act.—I am, Sir, &c., E. V. N.
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