I come in with a Mystery, bringing with me the Day as
a good defender of my cowardice and weakness; that He Who today rose again from
the dead may renew me also by His Spirit; and, clothing me with the new Man,
may give me to His New Creation, to those who are begotten after God, as a good
modeller and teacher for Christ, willingly both dying with Him and rising again
with Him.
Yesterday the Lamb was slain and the door-posts were
anointed; Egypt bewailed her Firstborn; the Destroyer passed us over; the Seal
was dreadful and reverend, and we were walled in with the Precious Blood. Today
we have clean escaped from Egypt and from Pharaoh; and there is none to hinder
us from keeping a Feast to the Lord our God—the Feast of our Departure; or from
celebrating that Feast, not in the old leaven of malice and wickedness, but in
the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, (1 Cor 5:8) carrying with us
nothing of ungodly and Egyptian leaven.