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7 Apr 2022

Going Out Of Egypt

Post haec intrant ad Pharaonem Moyses et Aaron petentes viam trium dierum profiscisci in deserto populum Israel, et ibi sacrificare Domino Deo. Quae est via trium dierum, quae nobis incedenda est, ut exeuntes de Aegypto pervenire possimus ad locum in quo immolare debeamus? Via est Christus est, qui dixit: Ego sum via, veritas, et vita. Quae via triduo nobis incedenda est. Qui enim confessus fuerit Dominum Jesum in ore suo, et crediderit in corde suo quod Deus suscitavit eum a mortuis tertia die, salvus erit. Haec est ergo tridui via, per quam pervenitur ad locum in qui Domino immoletur et reddatur sacrificium laudis. Abominationes, inquiunt, Aegyptiorum immolabimus Domino Deo nostro.

Sanctus Isidorus Hispalensis,Mysticorum Expositiones Sacramentorum Seu Quaestiones In Vetus Testamentum, In Exodum, Caput XI

Source: Migne PL 83.292d-293b
After this Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh seeking that the people of Israel go out three days into the desert and there sacrifice to the Lord God. 1 What is this way of the three days which we must advance along, so that going out from Egypt we are able to come to the place in which we should sacrifice? This way is Christ, He who said: 'I am the way, the truth, and the life.' 2 This is the way of three days we must walk. For he who shall have confessed the Lord Jesus in his mouth, and believed in his heart that God took Him up from the dead on the third day, he shall be saved. This is the way of three days, by which he comes to the place in which he shall sacrifice and give a sacrifice of praise. 'Abominations to the Egyptians,' they say, 'we sacrifice to the Lord our God.' 3

Saint Isidore of Seville, Expositions of Sacred Mysteries or Questions on the Old Testament, On Exodus, Chap 11

1 Exodus 3.18
2 Jn 14.6
3 Exodus 8.26

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