Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 12:10
And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
10. Nothing of it to be left over to the morning. An injunction given generally in the case of sacrifices, and intended to guard against profanation of the sacred flesh: Exo 23:18 = Exo 34:25; Deu 16:4 (of the Passover); Lev 7:15 (cf. v. 17).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
This was afterward a general law of sacrifices; at once preventing all possibility of profanity, and of superstitious abuse. The injunction is on both accounts justly applied by our Church to the eucharist.
Burn with fire – Not being consumed by man, it was thus offered, like other sacrifices Exo 12:8, to God.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 10. Ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning] Merely to prevent putrefaction; for it was not meet that a thing offered to God should be subjected to corruption, which in such hot countries it must speedily undergo. Thus the body of our blessed Lord saw no corruption, Ps 16:10; Ac 2:27, because, like the paschal lamb, it was a sacrifice offered to God.
It appears that from the Jewish passover the heathens borrowed their sacrifice termed PROPTER VIAM. It was their custom previously to their undertaking a journey, to offer a sacrifice to their gods, and to eat the whole if possible, but if any part was left they burned it with fire; and this was called propter viam, because it was made to procure a prosperous journey. It was in reference to this that Cato is said to have rallied a person called Q. Albidius, who, having eaten up all his goods, set fire to his house, his only remaining property. “He has offered his sacrifice propter viam,” says Cato, “because he has burned what he could not eat.” This account is given by Macrobius, Saturn., lib. ii., 2, edit. Bipont., vol. 1., p. 333; and is a remarkable instance how closely some of the religious observances of the people of God have been copied by the heathen nations.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
That which either was not usually eaten, or was more than all of you could conveniently eat,
ye shall burn with fire; to prevent either,
1. The superstitious use of the relics of that lamb by the Israelites, who thereby had received a greater benefit than they did afterwards by the brazen serpent, which upon that account they worshipped; or,
2. The profane abuse of that which had been consecrated to Gods service. Compare Exo 29:34.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
10. let nothing of it remain untilthe morningwhich might be applied in a superstitious manner,or allowed to putrefy, which in a hot climate would speedily haveensued; and which was not becoming in what had been offered to God.
Ex12:11-14. THE RITEOF THE PASSOVER.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning,…. It was to be all ate up; a whole Christ is to be received and fed upon by faith; Christ in both his natures, divine and human, united in his person, in all his offices of prophet, priest, and King, and with all the benefits and blessings of his grace, and which come by his blood, righteousness, and sacrifice:
and that which remaineth of it until the morning, ye shall burn with fire: what of the flesh which remaineth not ate, and what of it that could not be eaten, as the bones, which were not broken, and the nerves and sinews, which might not be eaten; and so runs the Jewish canon d,
“the bones, and the sinews, and what remains, they shall burn on the sixteenth day; and if the sixteenth happens on the sabbath, they shall burn on the seventeenth.”
The reason of this law was, that what was left might not be converted to common or superstitious uses, as also that the Israelites might not be burdened with it in their journey, nor the Egyptians have an opportunity of treating it with contempt.
d Misn. ut supra, (Persch. c. 7.) sect. 10.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(10) Ye shall let nothing of it remain.That there might be neither profanation nor superstitious use of what was left. (Comp. the requirement of the Church of England with respect to the Eucharistic elements.)
That which remainethi.e., the bones and such particles of flesh as necessarily adhered to them. These were to be at once totally consumed by fire. Thus only could they be, as it were, annihilated, and so secured from profanation.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
10, 11. Let nothing of it remain It was sacred to this special use, and was not to be profaned .
Loins girded As the first passover was eaten in the last hours of their stay in Egypt, they must then have been all ready to leave, waiting for the final word . Usually they sat or reclined about the table, but now they were to stand on their feet . Their feet were always bare within the house, but now they were to be shod for the rough desert roads . Their long garments were usually loose as they sat at meals, but now they were to be girded up closely for a long journey . Each was to have his travelling staff in hand, and to eat in haste . It is the Lord’s passover Here for the first time occurs the word , pesach, well rendered by our word passover, as it sets forth the passing over the houses of Israel in the tenth judgment-stroke . Jehovah says, “When I see the blood, I will pass over you.” So ever will the God of judgment pass over the soul marked with the blood of the spotless Lamb.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Exo 12:10. Ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning If the guests were not sufficient to eat up the whole lamb, what remained in the morning was then to be consumed in the fire. The verse might be rendered, ye shall let nothing it remain until the morning; but if any shall happen to remain, ye shall burn it with fire: an order, which seems to have been given, to prevent things sacred from being corrupted, or being esteemed as common: and, probably, in opposition to the practices of those idolaters, who used to preserve relics of the sacrifices for superstitious and abominable uses. See ch. Exo 29:34.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
That nothing was to remain until the morning manifested the earnestness with which true Israelites receive Christ and suffer nothing to remain in his person, offices, or character uninteresting to them. 2Co 6:2 ; Heb 13:11 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 12:10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
Ver. 10. And ye shall let nothing of it remain. ] We may not presume to sin in hope of pardon. Christ will not stand us for a sinning stock.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 23:18, Exo 29:34, Exo 34:25, Lev 7:15-17, Lev 22:30, Deu 16:4, Deu 16:5
Reciprocal: Exo 16:19 – General Lev 7:17 – burnt Lev 8:32 – General Num 9:12 – shall leave Deu 33:24 – let him be
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Exo 12:10-11. With your loins girded In a travelling posture, prepared for a journey, which is also the import of the three following particulars. Ye shall eat it in haste As men expecting every moment to begin their journey. Now all these ceremonies were to accompany the feast, that it might be a more lively commemoration of their signal deliverance out of Egypt. It is the Lords passover A sacrifice in honour of Jehovah, who passed over, or spared the Israelites, when he smote the Egyptians. It was not, however, strictly a sacrifice, not being offered upon the altar, but a religious ceremony, acknowledging Gods goodness to them, not only in preserving them from, but in delivering them by, the plagues inflicted on the Egyptians. Let nothing of it remain until the morning God would have them to depend on him for their daily bread. That which remaineth ye shall burn with fire To prevent its corruption, and the profane abuse of it.