Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 12:11

11 And thus shall ye eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand: and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORDS Passeover.

To wit, for this time, because their circumstances required it, that they being suddenly to take a great journey, might be in a travellers habit. But that these, and some other circumstances now enjoyned and used, were only temporary, and not perpetual, nor obligatory, sufficiently appears from the practise not onely of the Iews in following ages, but also of Christ and of his Apostles. And in like manner there are some institutions in the New-Testament which did onely oblige that age and not all that follow them, as Act. 15. 28, 29.

Like Travellers, and persons undertaking some difficult service; for such used to gird up their garments, which in those parts were long and troublesome. See 2 King. 4. 29. and 9. 1. Luk. 12. 35.

A badge, 1. of their readiness for their journey, Isa. 5. 27. Act. 12. 8. 2. Of their freedome▪ for slaves, such as the Israelites now were in Egypt, used to go barefooted. 3. Of joy, as on the contrary going barefoot was a badge of mourning, 2 Sam. 15. 30.

Like persons upon the point of departing, which was a very comfortable circumstance.

For so the word signifies, Deut. 16. 3. Isa. 52. 12.

This lamb, or your eating of it, is the Lords Passeover, i. e. it is a sign of Gods passing over you and your houses, when he comes to destroy the Egyptians on every side of you, ver. 13. 23. It is a Metonymy usual in Sacramental speeches, as Gen. 17. 10. Mat. 26. 26, 27, 28.