pontifex,

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Jesus was using the Passover supper to give a definitive interpretation to the actions that he would take the next day, Good Friday. As this

He therefore took away the sin of the world (to use the language of the liturgy), swallowing it up in the divine mercy.

The battle plan of the lamb of God was paradoxical in the extreme: he would conquer death precisely by dying.

His great Christ-figure, Frodo the hobbit, brought about the salvation of middle earth precisely through his entry into the heart of the land of Mordor, disempowering that terribleplace through his humble willingness to hear the full weight of its burden.

One reason that we have today such a difficult time appreciating Jesus is that we have become, effectively, Marcionite, that is to say, indifferent to,and/or ignorant of, the Bible. Without a properly Israelite preparation, most of the Christological language of the New Testament

What annoys Yahweh is not sacrifice in itself, but sacrifice that has become divorced from the real work of compassion and justice, from the demands of the covenant. Such sacrifice has devolved into an empty symbol.

For Israel, therefore, the Passover meal was to he a continual reminder of the price paid for freedom and communion.