Theorema de sacramentorum nucleo

x v i. Paschal Lamb.

4. Should the Lord Jesus Christ be recognized and held as the nucleus of the Sacrament of the Passover?

Response. Most certainly. For Paul wrote through the Holy Spirit: Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are without leaven. For our Passover has been sacrificed for us, namely, Christ. Therefore, let us keep the feast not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness: but with unleavened (bread) of sincerity and truth. 1 Cor. 5:7-8.

Therefore, the faithful Israelites, eating the flesh of the Lamb, looked by faith to the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. John 1:29. And through faith they ate of His flesh, insofar as He has been slaughtered from the foundations of the world. Rev. 13:8.

x v i i. Passage through the Red Sea.

5. Did that temporary Sacrament, which for the Israelites was that miraculous passage through the Red Sea, celebrate JESUS CHRIST as its nucleus under that respective name?

Response. If there is no true Baptism that is outside of Jesus Christ: in whom alone, with the flesh of the reborn man mortified and the Spirit vivified, those to be saved are reborn: if also all the Fathers passed through, and were baptized into Moses in the sea. 1 Cor. 10:1-2. Then it is manifest that the nucleus of that Sacrament was also Jesus Christ.

Just as in the Red Sea that hardened Pharaoh and the Egyptians were submerged and destroyed: but the Israelites passed through unharmed and were saved: so in the Baptism of Christ, our flesh is mortified and buried together with its desires: but the new Man is vivified, and through the Holy Spirit