staffe in your hand] As ready to depart thence: it is very probable, and generally received, that the Passeover was eaten standing: for that was a gesture of readinesse, for present passage: and this gesture is conceived to be peculiar to the first Passeover, because that onely was eaten in hast; and for that our Saviour celebrated the Passeover with another gesture, Luk. 22. 14, 15. the Lords Passeover] The Lambe is called the Lords Passeover, by a figurative speech; (which speech is observable in both the Sacraments of both Testaments) for it was not the Passeover it selfe, but the materiall part of it. It was called the Passeover, because where the Angel of the Lord saw the bloud sprinkled upon the side posts of the dores, he passed over that house in mercy, and slew none in it, vers. 13. and passed on with speedy judgement, to destroy the first-borne of the Egyptians.