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  paschal lamb

  noun

  a lamb slaughtered and eaten on the eve of the first day of Passover. Exodus 12:3–11.
• Paschal Lamb
  Paschal Lamb

  noun

  (sometimes not capitals) Old Testament the lamb killed and eaten on the first day of the Passover

paschal lamb

American  

noun

1. Jewish History. a lamb slaughtered and eaten on the eve of the first day of Passover. Exodus 12:3–11.

2. (initial capital letters) Christ.

3. (initial capital letters) any of several symbolic representations of Christ, as the Agnus Dei.

4. 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.

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Paschal Lamb British  

noun

1. (sometimes not capitals) Old Testament the lamb killed and eaten on the first day of the Passover

2. Christ regarded as this sacrifice

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Etymology

Origin of paschal lamb

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

But the word "passover" is used in three senses in the New Testament, the paschal supper, the paschal lamb, or the paschal festival.

From A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by Archibald Thomas Robertson

Outside, the women were roasting the paschal lamb.

From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The paschal lamb, whose blood sprinkled upon the door posts and lintels of the dwelling saved the Hebrew, is a beautiful type of Christ and his saving blood.

From The Bible Period by Period A Manual for the Study of the Bible by Periods by Josiah Blake Tidwell

Before the eating of the paschal lamb, Jesus rises from supper to wash the disciples' feet.

From An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by Simon Greenleaf

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

He explains what is the true Paschal Lamb and what the unleavened bread, and how to observe the real Passover, wherein all must be new and spiritual.

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by John Nicholas Lenker

The Paschal Lamb, which the Israelites both offer’d up, and ate as a Sacrifice, and as a Sacrament, was the Type of the Eucharist.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume IV Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

These Churches when they celebrated the passover were not celebrating the anniversary of the Last Supper, but the anniversary of the death of Christ, the true Paschal Lamb.

From The Books of the New Testament by Leighton Pullan

Therefore the Manna is a more expressive figure of this sacrament than the Paschal Lamb.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas

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