Jewish History. a lamb slaughtered and eaten on the eve of the first day of Passover. Exodus 12:3–11.
(initial capital letters) Christ.
(initial capital letters) any of several symbolic representations of Christ, as the Agnus Dei.
Also called Holy Lamb. (initial capital letters) a representation of a lamb passant having around its head a nimbus and supporting on the dexter shoulder a crosslike staff bearing a flag argent charged with a cross gules.
(sometimes not capitals) Old Testament the lamb killed and eaten on the first day of the Passover
Christ regarded as this sacrifice
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English
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Soon there will be strawberries, asparagus, rhubarb, snow peas and watercress, the paschal lamb, the Easter ham.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2017
They then prepared the paschal lamb, And stood with sandals on; Staves in their hands, loins girded too, They waited the command To throw their loosened shackles off, And seek the promised land.
From Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life by Gurney, Eliza Paul
But the paschal lamb was slain "on the fourteenth day at eventide," as is stated in Ex.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
Her caprices were as the gambols of the paschal lamb, to be indulged and overlooked.
From The King Of Beaver, and Beaver Lights From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell
Does not this look like a memory of a tradition of the Passover and its paschal lamb?
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill
It was at a Seder that Jesus first offered the bread and wine as his body and blood, and in Christian liturgies he has become the archetypal Paschal Lamb.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Paschal Lamb, of which not a bone was to be broken, prefigured the Antitype in His exemption from the treatment to which the two thieves crucified with Him were subjected.
From Exposition of the Apostles Creed by Dodds, James
Nevertheless, since this sacrament is to be received daily, whereas the Paschal Lamb was not, it is therefore necessary for other hosts to be reserved for the sick.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
Consequently, it seems that that sacrifice was a more significant figure of this sacrament than was the Paschal Lamb.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
It was the Passover, when the Paschal Lamb was slain and eaten, among the Jews, and Neurouz among the Persians.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert
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