Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 12:6
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Exodus12:6
6 And ye shall keep it up untill the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the Congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
Separate it from the rest of the flock, and keep it in a safe place: the reasons of which see ver. 3.
Or rather, every assembly, to wit, every such society as meet together for the eating of the lamb. And the assembly is said to kill it, because one person did it in their name and by their appointment, in which manner and upon which reason the whole congregation is said to stone a man, Levit. 24. 14, 16. Numb. 15. 35. Deut. 22. 21. It is probable it was killed by the master of the family, who was a Priest in his own Family, &c.
Heb. between the evenings or the two evenings, i. e. between the beginning and end of the evening. The evening is one third part of the day, and one of the appointed and usual times of devotion, as appears from Psal. 55. 17. Dan. 6. 10. and it begun at their ninth, or our third, hour, as may be gathered from Act. 3. 1. For then the Sun began more sensibly to decline, whence that time is fitly called by the Iews the first evening, and that was the time of the evening Sacrifice; the second evening was when the Sun was setting or set. Between these it was to be killed. This had a respect both to the time of the Worlds age when Christ came, which was its evening, or declining time, or end, Heb. 1. 2. and 9. 26. 1 Pet. 1. 20. and the time of the day in which Christ our Passeover was killed, Mat. 27. 46.-50. Mark 15. 25, 33, 34.
Marginal references: Lev. 23. 5. Num. 9. 3. and 28. 16. Deut. 16. 1.; Heb. between the two evenings
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