In the early centuries of the church, the Exodus and the Resurrection were linked closely in the Easter festival.
Since Jesus’ last days were during Passover, the early church continued to tell the Passover story as a part of its celebration of the resurrection story. These two stories sat side-by-side. The first is of the God who spared the first born of Israel, battered the oppressors with plagues and terrors, and led God’s people through the waters to freedom. The second was the story of the God rejected by his own people to pass through death and an earthen tomb to rise again.
When you hold these two stories close together, what do they bring out in each other? How do they echo one to the other? What do we hear when both are told that we do not hear when only one is?
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The doctrine of original sin is surely more humbling to man than the opposite: And I know not what honour we can pay to God, if we think man came out of His hands in the condition wherein he is now.
