The Institution of the Passover (2)

As has already been noticed, the truth that calls for the Passover is that being sinful Israel deserves to be oppressed and killed by the tyrant Pharaoh, that thus before the Lord can in actuality deliver them and enter with them into the rest of Canaan, He in His sovereign righteous love must by the shed blood of the Passover lamb redeem, purchase them, from the power of Phar­aoh -- the type and representative of the prince of darkness, the devil, together with the kingdom of dark­ness over...