3.  Now turn from the old to the new, from the figure to the reality.  There we have Moses sent from God to Egypt; here, Christ, sent forth from His Father into the world:  there, that Moses might lead forth an afflicted people out of Egypt; here, that Christ might rescue those who are oppressed in the world under sin:  there, the blood of a lamb was the spell against ἀποτρόπαιον the destroyer; here, the blood of the Lamb without blemish Jesus Christ is made the charm to scare φυγαδευτήριον, the word commonly used in the Septuagint for “a city of refuge.”  But the Verb φυγαδεύω is Transitive in 2 Macc. ix. 4, as well as in Xenophon and Demosthenes.  The application of the blood of Christ in Baptism is represented by marking the sign of the Cross on the forehead.  Compare the lines of Prudentius quoted by the Benedictine Editor: “Passio quæ nostram defendit sanguine frontem, Corporeamque domum signato collinit ore.” evil spirits:  there, the tyrant was pursuing that ancient people even to the sea; and here the daring and shameless spirit, the author of evil, was following thee even to the very streams of salvation.  The tyrant of old was drowned in the sea; and this present one disappears in the water of salvation.